KATHMANDU: As many as 18 Kashmiris, including five women and nine children, trying to return home were detained by security forces on India- Nepal border near Sonauli in Mahrajganj District of Uttar Pradesh, news reports quoting SSB sources said on Saturday.
The group of 18 persons were stopped by the SSB and local police for checking yesterday as they failed to produce valid documents about their identity.
All of the detainees, who had crossed over to Pakistani controlled Kashmir in 1990 from the valley had arrived on Nepal border from Muzaffarabad.
The detainees wanted to return home in view of the new Rehabilitation policy (2010) of the Jammu and Kashmir government, admitted Sashastra Seema Bal Deputy Commandant of Sonouli, Mitul Kumar.
According to the new surrender policy, former militants who crossed over to Pakistani part of Kashmir between 1989 and 2009 will be considered for safe return.
Kumar said that the group comprising four men, five women and nine children were sent to Jammu and Kashmir cell in Delhi by road. Jawans of the SSB were also accompanying them, he added.
“They were married and settled there,” he said, adding that the SSB would be accompanying the group till Delhi and from there the Central intelligence agencies would take over charge of them.
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