Farmer Jaspal Singh Pakko directing towards the place where shoe marks were found.

Bamiyal Border Outpost (Pathankot): The Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists, who attacked Pathankot air base on January 1, had entered India strolling over garlic and wheat fields, leaving behind the heavy shoe marks at at least two different locations less than 400 metres from the Border Security Force (BSF) outpost in Bamiyal sector.TOI has accessed the key photographs of shoe marks submitted by the owner of field Jaspal Singh Pakko to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths.The 48-year-old Rajput farmer had first found the shoe marks that also reveal clear branding of East Pakistan Chrome Tannery (EPCOT) in his tiny garlic farm on January 1.His narration of tale has become famous after the sleuths frm BSF's intelligence wing and NIA recorded his details."I had left the fields after watering my crops on December 31 at around 4:30 pm for home . When I returned to the fields next morning, I found these marks. By that time I had heard about the death of young Ikkagar Singh. I found something suspicious. I took photographs and went to the cops," Pakko told TOI.The farmer said that his suspicion grew stronger when the shoe marks looked too wide to resemble the usual footwear used by villagers or even boots worn by BSF troops or Army soldiers.The NIA's forensic team on Tuesday took the entire portion of wet soil for an examination to match them with the footwears of those terrorists killed at Pathankot air base.Pakko also disclosed that the shoe stamps in the wheat fields run parallel in two different rows.There is also a mark, stretching into a few centimetres, suggesting that one of the terrorists may have slipped while crossing the fields."The fields usually get very damp in evenings during winters. The soil tends to get slipper. That is what had happend here," said PakkoTOI also walked along four kilometres treacherous path from the BOP, through fields, Ujj river, tiny rivulets to Kolian village where the Gurdaspur SP's Mahindra XUV was carjacked and a damaged TOyota Innova car was abandoned by the terrorists.The NIA investigators are suspecting that this was the first batch of four men terrorists.