Youth from state to return after serving three years in Pak jail

After serving three years imprisonment in Pakistan jail, Yashpal, a youth hailing from the State, will return to his homeland on coming Tuesday.

The Pakistan government has recently announced to set him free. He would be handed over to the Indian officials with six other nationals at the Atari border on July 9. Yashpal (22), resident of Padera village in Faridpur area of Bareilly was arrested from Indo-Pak border on May 30, 2010.  The sleuths of the Intelligence Agency had nailed
him after suspecting him to be a spy. A court of Sahiwal at Punjab in Pakistan had announced three years of jail term for Yashpal on charges of crossing the border.  Yashpal was earlier kept at the jail of Sahiwal and later shifted to Kot lakhpat prison in lahore.

The demand for the youth's release had gained ground since the demise of another Indian prisoner Sarabjit at the Kot lakhpat jail. Yashpal had completed his sentence on May 30 this year, but the Pakistan authorities were keeping a mum on his release. It was only on the pressure of reports in media and social activists that the Pakistan
government announced his release.

Meanwhile, Yashpal's elderly parents Baburam and Mayadevi are happy over the news of their son's release from the Pakistan jail.  ''I will never allow my son to step out of house alone now,'' the teary-eyed mother uttered. It is no less than any festival for us and we will celebrate it despite all the financial constraints, his father asserted.