UMERKOT, Oct 24: A badly bruised middle-aged Indian man with a fractured leg limped into Pakistan near Gadhro on Wednesday, unnoticed by both Indian and Pakistani border security forces, it emerged on Thursday.

He is reportedly suffering from a mental disorder.

Abu Bakar, 50, son of Ameer Nohri, is a resident of Amyani village near the Tamlor railway station in Ramsar taluka of Barmer district, Indian state of Rajasthan.

Farmers at Gogasar quoted Abu Bakar as saying that in 1988 he axed his sister, Imamat, to death in India. The motive was to teach his parents a lesson as they had arranged his younger brother’s marriage, instead of his, and engaged the girl to be married in exchange.

A court sentenced him to life imprisonment for the murder. In 2011 he was acquitted and he reached home, where his parents chained him after he attacked them. Later they again got him locked up. Three days back he was released from the lockup. He went to the grave of his maternal grandmother, Maryat, and grandfather Allah Dad Nohri, buried in the Wali Faqir graveyard in India. There he sought pardon for the murder of his sister. Later he visited the graves of his paternal grandfather, Muhammad Qasim, and grandmother, Raheema, buried in the Lonthasar graveyard near Gogasar in Pakistan, for the same purpose.

Replying to a farmer’s question why he trespassed into Pakistani territory just to visit a graveyard and why he did not come here with a visa, he said he had no means to get a passport and then a visa.

He further told the farmers that he was wounded when he scaled the barbed wires and fractured his leg when he leaped from a height of 15 feet.

When Rangers officials were contacted to know his whereabouts and what legal formalities were to be fulfilled to deport him, they said he was not with them but was being questioned by intelligence agencies.

Tharparkar SSP Abid Qaimkhani told Dawn over the phone that police had not been informed of the trespassing of an Indian citizen and no such case had been registered.