Woman for whom Hamid Ansari sneaked into Pak testified in court to clear his name

December 21, 2018 16:01

The woman Indian national Hamid Nehal Ansari sneaked into Pakistan to meet testified in a Pakistani court in an effort to clear him though the two never got a chance to meet.

Ansari, 33, was arrested in Pakistan in 2012 for illegally entering the country from Afghanistan to meet the woman he befriended online. He was held incommunicado for three years before he was given a three-year jail term by a military court in December 2015 on charges of espionage and possessing fake documents.

"The girl for whom he went to Pakistan actually testified in his favour, that he came to meet her but he was (still) put in jail,' external affairs ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said on Thursday.

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