Sabkush Headlines: Pak Boy On Trial For Crossing Over To India
Pak Boy On Trial For Crossing Over To India
Mohammad Ateeq, 13, who reached India on board the Samjhauta Express on January 11, is scheduled to have charges framed by a local court on Friday for travelling to India without valid documents, reports Mail Today. Ateeq ran away from his home in Pakistan’s Punjab province after his father Malik Iftikhar stopped him from flying kites. The Pakistani government has banned flying kites in the province. In Lahore, Ateeq took shelter and fell asleep in a railway bogie. The bogie was attached to the Samjhauta Express the next morning without a proper security check and his presence was not detected. When he reached Attari railway station, Indian immigration officials detained him after they found that he did not possess any travel documents. He was then sent to a juvenile home after being booked under the Indian Passport Act and the Foreigners Act. Human rights activists in Pakistan and India have appealed to the foreign ministry and the Union home minister to act leniently towards Ateeq as he had crossed the border in innocence. Ranjan Lakhanpal, a Chandigarh- based human rights activist, has moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court for withdrawal of cases against the boy and sending him back to Pakistan.
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