Hyderabad Techie Comes Home After 4 Years In Pak Jail

According to news agency ANI, Prashanth, an IT sector employee, wanted to travel to Switzerland for "personal reasons" and jumped the border on his way to walking there

A Telangana man who went missing in April 2017 has been found - he had been detained by Pakistan after illegally crossing the border on his way to Switzerland. Prashanth, an IT sector employee, was released Monday and handed over to Indian officials at the Attari-Wagah border crossing in Punjab. He has since been handed over to a Cyberabad Commissionerate police team that brought him to Telangana's Madhapur, where his family had filed a missing person's complaint on April 29, 2017. "After continuous follow up by Telangana government with External Affairs and Home Affairs ministries, the missing person was released and handed over to Indian authorities...to Inspector P Ravindra Prasad of Madhapur Police Station, at Attari border in Punjab," a statement said.