NAGPUR: A 43-year-old woman from Nagpur, Sunita, has reportedly crossed the Line of Control (LoC) on Wednesday and walked into Pakistan from the last village in Kargil district of Ladakh, leaving Indian security and intelligence agencies baffled. Sources revealed Sunita, a former nurse with a north Nagpur hospital, was driven by a desperate desire to meet a Pakistani pastor, who she had claimed to have met online. This was her third attempt to cross the border, having been intercepted twice at Attari. The incident raised serious concerns about border security and the circumstances that led to Sunita’s undetected crossover at a time of heightened tensions with Pakistan and heavy troop deployment along the LoC.Sunita is now believed to be in the custody of Pakistani agencies, who are investigating her motive behind this audacious and unexplained act, said sources. Indian authorities, however, have not officially confirmed her interception across the border. TOI has learned through sources in the intelligence apparatus that she was spotted by villagers in Pakistan, leading to her arrest. On May 14, Sunita left her 15-year-old son in Hundermaan, a frontier Kargil village along the Line of Control, instructing him to wait for her return. When she did not come back, villagers handed over the boy to the Ladakh police. The police are probing Sunita’s background, including her call records, communications, and her family’s claim that she was mentally unwell and undergoing treatment at Regional Mental Hospital in Nagpur. “She was undergoing treatment for her mental condition,” her brother told TOI at their Sant Kabir Nagar residence on Friday. Sunita’s earlier attempts to cross the border were thwarted by authorities. In early March, she was intercepted along with her son by Amritsar police at Atari checkpoint.
