ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The two Indian High Commission employees who were involved in a hit-andrun incident in the federal capital quietly returned home on Monday along with a few other Indian diplomats.

Dwimu Brahma and Paul Selvadhas returned to India via the Wagah border, a Pakistani of ficial said.

The Indians crossed the border after undergoing thermal screening and preliminary medical check-up, the official said. They were escorted to the Wagah checkpost in a car under tight security measures.

He said three other officials of the Indian High Commission Air Adviser Group Capt Manu Midha, Second Secretary S. Shiv Kumar and one Pankaj accompanied their two colleagues and crossed the Wagah border.

The Indian High Commission, while responding to a query from Dawn, confirmed that the two were back in India and crossed over in the morning via Wagah-Attari border crossing.

Another Pakistani official in Lahore said security official Brahma and driver Selvadhas of Indian High Commission were taken into custody by the police on June 15 when they were trying to flee after hitting a pedestrian. They were later released.

The two Indian HC employeeswerelaterbooked by the Islamabad Police for reckless driving, causing injury due to negligent driving, and possessing f ake currency as fake notes worth ten thousand rupees were recovered from them during their brief detention by the police for interrogation and completing legal formalities.

They reportedly belonged to India`s Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). A sixteen-member specialised security unit from CISF has been deployed at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad since 2009 for the protection of the high commission and diplomats posted here.

The Foreign Office had later described their of fences as `serious`.

FO Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui, while talking to Dawn over phone, said they had neither been deported nor withdrawn by the Indian HC.

Wagah border, she said, has been reopened for repatriation of Indians in Pakistan because of the Covid-19 pandemic and they returned.

A total of 748 Indians are to be repatriated from Pakistan to India from June 25-27.

According to the repatriation schedule, around 250 Indians will return each day over the three days.