“After a few days, he told me the woman is from Pakistan… and insisted he would live with her. He then said he was going to Vaishno Devi and left home. Now we have come to know that he actually went to Nepal to meet the woman,” he added.
Birbal Meena is still in shock over the events that have transpired over the last three days. He and his family found themselves in the middle of a police investigation and were subjected to multiple rounds of questioning over how a Pakistani woman came to be living with them.
His elder brother Netrapal Meena (50) and nephew Sachin (22) were arrested by Greater Noida police on Tuesday for providing shelter to the woman, Seema Ghulam Haider (27), and her four children. Seema and Sachin had met virtually on gaming platform PUBG in 2019-20. The two grew close and wanted to get married. In May, Seema and her children allegedly entered India illegally through the Nepal border.
“We had no idea what was going on. Around eight months ago, I saw Sachin talking to someone over a video call at night. The next day, I asked him who he was speaking to but he didn’t respond. He did it again a few days later. I asked him again, sternly, and he said he was talking to a woman and wanted to marry her. His father and I scolded him and asked him to end it, but he did not listen to us,” said Birbal, sitting in his two-room house in Rabupura’s Meena Thakuran Colony.
“After a few days, he told me the woman is from Pakistan… and insisted he would live with her. He then said he was going to Vaishno Devi and left home. Now we have come to know that he actually went to Nepal to meet the woman,” he added.
Meena said Sachin had fought with the family over the woman and moved out of home. “He had been staying at a rented accommodation for the last two months. We had no interaction with him. After the woman came from Pakistan and started living with him, he got in touch with a friend who suggested a court marriage. That friend contacted a lawyer in Bulandshahar… who, after checking documents, informed police that the woman could be a spy.”
Sachin has studied up to Class V and has been working at a kirana store for six years. The family said he was earning around Rs 8,000 a month. “We are not in a good state financially. Netrapal and I used to sell plants… we have no land, if we do not work a day, we can not get food,” said Birbal.
He was firm that the family will not accept their relationship. “The woman should be sent back to Pakistan,” he added.
Netrapal, Sachin and Seema, also arrested Tuesday, were sent to 14-day judicial custody. The kids will stay with her in jail.
According to an officer, Seema was married to a man in Pakistan: “In 2019, he went to work in Saudi Arabia. Later that year, Seema came in contact with Sachin while playing PUBG.”
DCP (Greater Noida) Saad Miya Khan had said, “The two got close and tried to meet. In March this year, Seema went to Kathmandu… to meet Sachin for the first time… In May, she went to Nepal again with her four children, on a tourist visa. Then she took a bus and came to Delhi. After that she came to Mohalla Ambedkar Nagar and was living there illegally since May 13.”
Police recovered three Aadhaar cards, six passports, a family registration certificate, and a bus ticket (Kathmandu to Delhi) among other things from Seema.
Source: The Indian Express