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Pakistani woman’s determined quest to be with her online gaming buddy from across the border leads to arrests and deeper scrutiny of her motives
NEW DELHI: Seema Ghulam Haider, who had come to India from Pakistan along with her four children, had sold her properties and watched youtube videos to understand the route to enter India via Nepal, Noida police said on Tuesday.
Seema, during her interrogation, has also said that she came in touch with Noida-based Sachin through PUBG, a gaming app banned in India, in 2020 and later decided to marry him.
On Tuesday, she was produced before the court after being arrested by police. DCP (Greater Noida) Saad Miya Khan said that her lover, Sachin and his father have also been arrested and produced before the court. He said Seema’s children would be sent to a shelter home.
On Monday, Haider, Sachin and her four children were caught in Haryana’s Ballabhgarh. The local police had gotten secret information about Seema and Sachin.
On being asked about her family in Pakistan, Seema, a resident of Karachi, said her husband had left her in 2019. Later, she met Sachin through a gaming app and exchanged their numbers. Soon they fell in love and decided to marry. She also said that before coming to India, she did not inform anyone of her move, including any of her family members in Pakistan.
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Seema, also surfed YouTube videos and the internet to know the route for coming to India. She then went to Nepal, from where she took a bus to Noida.
According to DCP Khan, Seema fell in love with Sachin when her husband went to Saudi Arabia for work. “In March of this year, Seema and Sachin met in Nepal and then decided to marry. In May, she finally came to India via Nepal. A travel agent helped her by providing flight tickets to Nepal from Karachi,” DCP Khan said.
On being asked about suspicion of spying, DCP Khan said a marriage registration certificate, Pakistani passport and Pakistani citizenship cards had been recovered. “The Immigration Department has been informed. Central agencies, UP ATS and other departments are further verifying all these facts,” he said. DCP Khan also said the information about her brother in the Pakistani army is also being verified.
DCP Khan further said Seema owned a plot in Karachi, which she sold for Pakistani Rs 12 lakh before coming to India. “She also had some savings from her husband. She used them all to come to India. Her plan was to marry Sachin and settle down in Noida,” DCP Khan said.
According to the police, after coming to Noida’s Rabupura, Sachin arranged rented accommodation for Seema near his residence. A week later, he also started to live with her and told his father about Seema being a Pakistani citizen.
