Pakistani Rangers had surrendered Nagpur woman to BSF after she had crossed the Line of Control ‘to meet a Pakistani pastor’ she had befriended online. She had crossed along the LoC near Kargil on 14th May, days after India’s Operation Sindoor.
Sunita Jamgade, a 43-year-old Nagpur woman who had illegally crossed over to Pakistan last month via the Line of Control (LoC) at Hunderman village in Kargil, was returned to Indian officials by Pakistani officials on Saturday, The Indian Express said.
The Pakistan Rangers handed Jamgade over to the Border Security Force (BSF), who further handed her over to the Amritsar Police. She had gone missing on 14 May. She crossed the border more than ten days ago, leaving her son behind, and was apprehended by Pakistani troops, the police said.
According to the Times of India, sources informed that Sunita, a former nurse at a hospital in North Nagpur, was allegedly attempting to visit a Pakistani pastor she had met online.
One officer and two women constables have been sent to Amritsar to escort Sunita back, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone V) Niketan Kadam in a statement to The Indian Express.
“Pakistan picked up Sunita when she had crossed over. She was handed over by the Pakistan Rangers to the Border Security Force (BSF), who have handed her over to the Amritsar Police,” Kadam said.
This was Sunita’s third border-crossing attempt, having been turned back twice previously at Attari. The episode has caused grave concern about how she evaded detection, given the high tensions with Pakistan and the extensive deployment of troops on the LoC.
