Kutch: Border Security Force (BSF) personnel apprehended a 20-year-old engineering student from Maharashtra while he was trying to sneak into Pakistan on foot to meet a girl he had befriended on social media.
He was apprehended in Gujarat’s Rann of Kutch. The youth, identified as Zishan Mohammad Siddiqui, is a resident of Khwajangar in Maharashtra’s Osmanabad town.
Kutch-East Superintendent of Police, Parikshita Rathod, said, “Siddiqui was held by the BSF on Thursday night and later handed over to the local police.”
He added: “Police had issued an alert after a motorcycle with the Maharashtra registration number was found abandoned near Dholavira village in the Rann of Kutch on Thursday evening. The BSF later nabbed the man when he was found walking towards the border in a bid to enter Pakistan.”