69-year-old Singh, who was released from Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail this morning, crossed to the Indian side at Wagah border after being handed over by Pakistani security personnel who had held him by an iron chain attached to his belt.
Sporting a flowing white beard, a beaming Surjeet Singh told reporters, "After 30 years, I am meeting my children. I am very happy".
As soon he entered India, Surjeet Singh hugged his family members including wife Harbans Kaur, son Kulwinder Singh and grandchildren besides villagers from his native village Phidde who garlanded him.
Dressed in a plain white kurta pyjama and sporting a black turban, Surjeet said that he wished to pay obeisance at the Golden Temple before leaving for Phidde village in Ferozpur district.
Singh served a life term following his arrest on charges of spying in the 1980s in Pakistan. He was given the death sentence under the Pakistan Army Act in 1985. The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1989 by then President Ghulam Ishaq Khan.
Talking about another Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh who is lodged in Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore, Surjeet said he will make efforts to release him.
"I am sure now I will get Sarbjeet Singh released from Pakistan jail, don
