LAHORE, Aug 29: Pakistan is sending home an Indian teenager, who was detained after he had illegally crossed the border. Ranjit Kumar, a resident of occupied Jammu and Kashmir, will be handed over by the Pakistan Rangers to the Indian authorities at Wagah Checkpost on Saturday (today).

Sources said the jail authorities had received the orders of the release of Ranjit, son of Shayam Lal, from the Interior Ministry. The move is in response to India’s sending of a Pakistani boy home by Dosti Bus.

The Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad has been requestedto either depute an embassy official at Wagah Checkpost or ask the Border Security Force to receive him.

Ranjit was shifted to the Central Jail, Kot Lakhpat, from the Gujranwala jail on Jan 20, 2000. He crossed over to Pakistan when he left home after having a dispute with his mother.—APP