Had come to stay with Indian friend she had befriended through online game PUBG in 2019
Noida: Pakistani national Seema Ghulam Haider (30), arrested for illegally entering India and staying in Greater Noida without valid documents was on Tuesday, July 4, sent to 14-day judicial custody by a local court. The court also ordered that her four children will also stay with the mother in the jail, police said, a report in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says
The woman’s Indian friend, Sachin Meena (25), who gave her shelter and his father Netrapal Meena,, have also been arrested,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Saad Miya Khan told reporters.
Central agencies, including the Bureau of Immigration, and the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad have been informed about the woman who was arrested for illegally staying in Greater Noida after entering India through Nepal in May, police said.
A senior officer said the woman arrived in India on May 13 with her four children without valid documents to stay with a Greater Noida man. The two had met as team players of the online game PUBG in 2019.
As team players, the two began to chat, exchange text messages and phone calls over Whatsapp and Instagram and soon became friends.
“The Pakistani woman’s four children — aged seven and below — will be produced in a competent court here and further action would be taken on the court’s direction,” Khan said.
An FIR in the case has been lodged at the local Rabupura police station under provisions of the Foreigners Act, the Passport (Entry into India) Act and Indian Penal Code sections 120B (party to criminal conspiracy) and 34 (act done by several people with common intention), he said.
On Tuesday afternoon, Seema, Sachin and his father Netrapal were produced in a local court which sent them to 14-day judicial custody, Rabupura police station in-charge Sudhir Kumar told PTI.
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 husnad has apparently deserted her.
“The children – three girls and a boy – were also produced before a competent court which ruled that the children can stay with their mother, who will be lodged at the Luksar jail in Greater Noida,” the police said.
Seema left Pakistan in May for Nepal on a tourist visa with her children. She stayed there in Pokhara city and took a bus to Delhi via Kathmandu after which she reached Greater Noida.
Seema Haider had come to Greater Noida to meet Meena. The two hoped to eventually get married and settle down in Greater Noida. News of her arrival in the neighbourhood and her Pakistani origin concealed for very long and ultimately led to the arrests in in Ballabhgarh, Haryana
Meena, who runs a provision store, lives in Ambedkar Nagar area of Rabupura in Greater Noida. Seema Haider hails from the Sindh province of Pakistan. She was married to Ghulam Haider in 2014. They lived together in Karachi till 2019 when Ghulam moved to Saudi Arabia for work. This was her second marriage and all her four children are from the first husband, police said. The couple did not have a happy marriage.
Police said they have recovered Seema’s marriage registration certificate, a Pakistani citizenship identity card, a sim card and a mobile phone of that country from her. Police have also found two video cassettes of Seema’s marriage.
Perhaps the government of India and police officials of the country could take a more compassionate and humane view of this entire episode and give it a fairy-tale ending.
Seeing the plight of the hapless woman and her four innocent children the government should grant her refugee status and 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 husnad has apparently deserted her.
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