Missing Fazilka farmer Amritpal in Pakistan: BSF

Farmer Amritpal Singh, who had gone missing on June 21 near Rana BOP, is in Pakistan.

Confirming this development, Jugraj Singh, father of Amritpal Singh, told The Tribune that during a flag meeting with BSF officers, Pakistan Rangers reportedly admitted that Amritapal was in the custody of the Pakistan’s Punjab police.

Meanwhile, attempts to speak to the DIG, BSF Abohar Range, in this regard proved futile.

Former Member of Parliament from Hoshiarpur and senior BJP leader Avinash Rai Khanna has written a letter to Minister for External Affairs S Jaishankar to do the needful to bring the youth back.

He has attached a news-item published in The Tribune, along with the letter, requesting the authorities to consider the demand of the family to contact the Pakistan authorities to get the youth back to India.

Amritpal had gone to till the family’s agriculture land across the barbed wire fencing in Khaire ke Uttar village on June 21, but inadvertently strayed into Pakistan territory.