Dhaka: India’s Border Security Forces on Monday handed back to Pakistan a 12-year old boy who had accidentally crossed over to the Indian land in search of water, reports the Times of India.

The two countries are now experiencing war-like situation over sudden attack and intrusion over Kashmir.

Indian officials said the boy identified as Mohammad Tanveer was caught by the BSF on Sunday evening at the Dona Telu Mal border post in Punjab.

The boy in ‘inadvertently’ went to the Indian side in search of drinking water from a tubewell, the officials added.

The BSF, officials said, took care of Tanveer overnight and kept him at their camp and early on Monday contacted their Pakistani counterparts so that he could be sent back to his village Dhari in the Kasur district of that country.

‘Tanveer was handed over to the Rangers at about 11:00am as per the policy of handing back inadvertent crossers on humanitarian grounds,’ they added, reports the Times of India.

An Indian soldier, Chandu Babulal Chavan, is in Pakistan’s custody after he ‘inadvertently’ crossed over last week.