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▼ An Indian man held for six years in Pakistan after illegally entering the country has returned to his family.
Hamid Ansari was convicted on charges of spying after he was found with a fake Pakistani identity card.
But his supporters said he had entered the country to pursue "blind and stupid" love with a woman he met online.
It is not clear, however, if he ever met the woman he crossed the border for.
Ansari was greeted at India's Wagah border by his family, government officials and journalists.
His return ends a years-long ordeal for his family who fought to first track him down, and then secure his release.
Though officially convicted in 2015, Ansari had been in Pakistani custody since 2012.
His jail term officially ended on Sunday, but his release was delayed because legal formalities had not been completed.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence and the partition of India in 1947 and regularly jail each others citizens.
Who is Hamid Ansari?
Hamid Ansari is the youngest son of Fauzia Ansari, the vice-principal of a Mumbai college, and banker Nihal Ansari.
In November 2012, the 33-year-old had just started a new job as a lecturer at an educational institute when he told his parents that he was going to Afghanistan for an interview with an airline company.
But a few days after he landed in the Afghan capital Kabul, Ansari went missing.
His family says that he stopped communicating with them, and his phone number was switched off.
Activist Jatin Desai, who has been at the forefront of efforts to get Ansari released, told BBC Hindi that that the family had then checked his laptop, where they discovered that he had been communicating with several people from Pakistan via email and social media.
They had also realised that he was in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of the country.
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