Bhuj\/Mumbai:<\/strong>\u00a0A 20-year-old engineering student from Maharashtra was apprehended by the Border Security Force (BSF) in Gujarat\u2019s Rann of Kutch while he was trying to sneak into Pakistan on foot to meet a girl he had befriended on social media, officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n The man, identified as Zishan Mohammad Siddiqui, is a resident of Khwajangar in Maharashtra\u2019s Osmanabad town, they said.<\/p>\n \u201cSiddiqui was held by the BSF on Thursday night and later handed over to the local police,\u201d Kutch-East Superintendent of Police, Parikshita Rathod, said.<\/p>\n \u201cPolice had issued an alert after a motorcycle with the Maharashtra registration number was found abandoned near Dholavira village in the Rann of Kutch on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n The BSF later nabbed the man when he was found walking towards the border in a bid to enter Pakistan,\u201d Rathod added.<\/p>\n According to a police official from Maharashtra, Siddiqui had left his home in Osmanabad on a motorcycle on July 11 to meet the girl in Pakistan as no means of public transport was available due to the lockdown.<\/p>\n \u201cHe went to Kutch on his motorcycle to cross the border and enter Pakistan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n According to police sources, after his motorcycle got stuck in the sand, he started walking towards Pakistan.<\/p>\n The police official said that Siddiqui was in touch with a Pakistani girl through social media since the last few months and they were in love with each other.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter his disappearance, his family members had approached the Osmanabad city police station and lodged a missing person\u2019s complaint,\u201d said Rajtilak Roshan, Superintendent of Police, Osmanabad.<\/p>\n \u201cPolice launched a probe and Siddiqui\u2019s social media accounts were examined, in which it came to light that he has left home to meet the girl in Pakistan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Based on his mobile phone records, the cyber wing of the Osmanabad police traced his whereabouts, the official said.<\/p>\n He was traced near Kutch and the details were shared with the Gujarat police, he said.<\/p>\n According to another official, the information about Siddiqui was also shared with the BSF officials and he was detained on Thursday night, just before he was trying to cross the border and enter Pakistan.<\/p>\n The Osmanabad police said they have obtained some messages exchanged between Siddiqui and the Pakistani girl.<\/p>\n A team of Osmanabad police has left for Kutch to take his custody and bring him back home, the official said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a statement issued by the BSF in Gujarat said that after he was caught, Siddiqui told them that he was in love with a Karachi-based girl.<\/p>\n \u201cHe wanted to go to Pakistan and had used Google Map for navigation. He was apprehended about 1.5 km short of Indo-Pak international border when he was attempting to cross over to Pakistan. He was in a dehydrated state and revealed that he had gone unconscious for about two hours in the Rann,\u201d it said.<\/p>\nBSF nabbed him when he was walking towards border<\/h2>\n
Missing person\u2019s complaint<\/h2>\n
Karachi-based girl<\/h2>\n
![\"The](\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/themes\/sahifa\/images\/googlenews.svg\")