Passionate appeals by family members yielded results as Ethesham Bilal, a Jammu and Kashmir student pursuing engineering at a Noida-based university, who had reportedly joined the banned Islamic State of Jammu and Kashmir (ISJK) terror outfit, returned home Sunday afternoon.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police, without mentioning the name of any individual, tweeted, "With the help of family and #police an individual (name withheld) has been brought back to the mainstream. Further details shall follow."
His parents made passionate appeals to militant groups to send home their son, who was studying B.Tech at the Sharda university in Noida. They stated "he is the only son in entire Sofi clan and should be allowed to join back his family."
His father Bilal Sofi was quoted in the appeal as saying "My son, you used to say heaven lies beneath the feet of parents, so come and live with us again."
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