AMRITSAR, Dec 5: A man who fled occupied Kashmir in 1989 to live in Pakistan to escape the law and went on to become a criminal lawyer, arrived in New Delhi on Friday after falling into a coma.

Habibullah Mir, 33, was a student in the occupied Kashmir town of Baramulla when he allegedly killed a man in a traffic accident, Indian border officials said.

He slipped across the Line of Control and finished his degree in law from Pakistan, becoming a criminal lawyer in Lahore, the officials said.

But Mr Mir was sent for treatment at New Delhi’s All India Institute for Medical Sciences after falling into a coma, doctors said.

“Habibullah’s mind is now vegetative and is completely unresponsive to psychological and physical stimuli,” said Shavinder Singh Sandhu, a doctor in East Punjab. —AFP