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AMRITSAR: Mumbai resident Fauzia Ansari has not been able to stop smiling of late. He stayed in touch with his family till November 10, 2012. This is because her son, Hamid Nehal Ansari, will be returning to India via the Attari border check post near here in December this year, after serving a three-year jail term for espionage in the neighbouring country.Fauzia said Hamid had entered the neighbouring country through the Afghanistan border to meet his girlfriend, who he befriended on Facebook in 2012. “My son’s lawyer in Pakistan, Qazi Mohammad Anwar, said Nehal will be handed over to Indian authorities at Attari border, after the completion of his jail term on December 15, 2018,” Fauzia told TOI over the phone from Mumbai on Saturday.Quoting Anwar, she said the Peshawar high court had disposed of her son’s petition seeking remission of his three-year jail term, but it had assured to deport him after the completion of his jail term in December. She informed that the court had also declined to substitute the word “espionage and anti-state activities” with “illegal activities”.Nehal was convicted by a military court in the neighbouring country for espionage and anti-state activates and was sentenced on December 15, 2015.Nehal, an MBA, was a teacher in Mumbai before he left India for Afghanistan on a tourist visa on November 4, 2012..