PICS: Indian National Hamid Ansari Reaches Delhi After Six Years In Pakistan Prison

Hamid Nihal Ansari. Photo: Facebook

After being sentenced by the military court, Ansari was lodged in the Peshawar Central jail on December 15, 2015. Though his term ended on December 15, 2018, he was not able to leave for India as his legal documents were not ready. / ANI IMAGE

He had entered the country from Afghanistan with a fake Pakistani identity card and was sentenced to three years imprisonment by a military court in 2015. / ANI IMAGE

Ansari, a 33-year-old Mumbai resident, was detained by Pakistani intelligence agencies in the year 2012 for entering the country illegally to reportedly meet a girl had befriended online. / ANI IMAGE

Ansari crossed over to the Indian side, as his family waited at the border to receive him. He was lodged in a jail in Pakistan and was released on Tuesday. / ANI IMAGE

Earlier, he had crossed the Attari-Wagah border. / ANI IMAGE