The woman, identified as Seema Haider, her partner Sachin Meena and his father Netrapal Meena were arrested recently
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Noida (India): A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida has granted bail to the Pakistani woman, Seema Haider (30), for illegal entry into India along with her four children, all under the age of seven, a special report in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says
Her Indian friend, Sachin Meena (25) and his father, Netrapal Meena (50), who had given shelter to the lady in their home. were also granted bail. All three of them were arrested on July 4.
Bail was granted to the three by Justice Nazim Akbar of the Jewar Civil Court junior division. Perhaps the tender ages of Seema’s innocent iinfants tilted the balance in their favour.
“Both Seema and Sachin have been granted bail by the court. However, they are yet to be released from the jail. They would be released after paper work and verification are completed,” said Sudhir Kumar, in-charge of local Rabupura police station, where the case was lodged.
Seema and Sachin , had fallen in love over the course of three years as team players and partners in the online game PUBG, all this against the backdrop of a loveless marriage and a cruel, abusive husband, Ghulam Haider, who eventually deserted her. Sachin in India, seemed like her only ray of hope. She decided to risk her all and took the do-or-die step to come to India and start a new life.
The couple got in touch in 2019 through the online game PUBG and eventually got closer.
According to Advocate Hemant Krishna Parashar, the couple first met in Nepal in March and wed at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu.
Having burnt her bridges, the option of going back to Pakistan was completely out of the question. Seema then boarded a bus to India and reached Greater Noida on May 13. Since then, she and her husband were living in a rented accommodation in Ambedkar Nagar, Rabupura.
By the time the police got wind of Seema’s illegal entry and stay in Greater Noida, the couple gave them the slip and fled to the neighouring state of Haryana, along with Seema’s four children. Eventually the police tracked them down and remanded them to 14 days of judicial custody.
Earlier, the court had ordered that the woman’s four children – three girls and a boy –all , aged below 7, would stay with the mother in the jail. The children had accompanied Seema when she illegally came to India in May this year.
Both Sachin and Seema had confessed their love for each other in front of the media and police, urging the government to allow them to get married and stay together in India.
The duo had got in touch in 2019 while playing online game PUBG and eventually got closer to the extent that she decided to come to India to stay with him in Greater Noida.
Pravasi Samwad had earlier carried a report of Seema Haider on July 6 : “Pak woman held in Greater Noida in 14-day
judicial custody along with her 4 kids”
Our correspondent had written in the article that: “Seeing the plight of the hapless woman and her four innocent children, the government should grant her refugee status, allow her to marry Sachin and settle down here in India. After all back in Pakistan, the poor woom would suffer a life of misery and penury, since her husband had apparently deserted her”.
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