Kolkata:
BSF jawan Purnam Sahu’s wife – Pakistan was detained by Rangers after inadvertently crossing the international border – on Sunday she will visit Ferozepur in Punjab to gather information from senior officers of the force about her husband’s efforts to bring her back back.
The pregnant woman, her son and three other relatives will fly to Chandigarh on Monday and then for Ferozepur, a city in the India-Pakistan border.
Sahu is from Hooghly district in West Bengal.
According to BSF officials, the incident occurred when Sahu, while saving a group of farmers near the border, went away to rest under a tree, inadvertently slipped into the Pakistani region. He was posted on the Ferozepur border with the 182nd Battalion of BSF.
Officials said on Thursday night that the Indian and Pakistani border forces held a flag meeting to negotiate Sahu’s release, but the family did not get any more updates.
Sahu’s wife Rajani told PTI, “I have been under severe stress since hearing the news. Today is the fifth day and there is no update on his return.”
“I got tomorrow’s flight ticket to Chandigarh. From there I will go to Ferozeppur. My son and three other relatives will be with me,” he said.
Rajani initially planned to climb on Amritsar Mail on Sunday evening, who travels from Howrah to Ferozeppur via Pathankot, but did not get a strong ticket.
Rajani said that if her questions are unanswered, she will travel from Ferozeppur to Delhi to talk to government officials.
Sahu’s parents, who live from the Harisabh region of Rishra in Hooghly, West Bengal, said that they would appeal to the central government to make everyone needy to ensure their son’s return.
Sahu’s mother said, “I can’t tell you how tense I am. I request BSF officials to bring my son back.”
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