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The Uttar Pradesh police’s anti-terrorist squad (ATS) on Monday questioned Pakistani citizen Seema Haider, who entered India illegally in May and is now living with her Indian partner Sachin Meena in Greater Noida.
This comes a day after the ATS arrested a suspected agent of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in Lucknow on charges of supplying “vital information about defence establishments” to his handlers in the neighbouring country.
RW group’s threat
Haider’s questioning also comes at a time when a little-known right-wing group in Greater Noida has threatened a protest if the woman, who claimed to have converted to Hinduism, is not evicted from the country “within 72 hours”.
Possible arrest
“They [Haider and Meena] may or may not be arrested after the questioning, depending on the outcome of the interrogation in the sensitive matter that pertains to national security,” an ATS official told PTI.
Local police are separately investigating the case and are yet to file a chargesheet.
The backstory
Haider, 30, had entered India along with her four children in a bus from Nepal in May in order to live with Meena, 22, who lives in the Rabupura area of Greater Noida.
On July 4, Haider was arrested by local police for entering India illegally and Meena was held for sheltering illegal immigrants.
However, they were both granted bail by a local court on July 7 and have been living together with her four children in a house in the Rabupura area.
Meanwhile
Pakistan’s intelligence agencies have informed the country’s government that love was the “only” factor that led a mother of four to sneak into India to live with a Hindu man whom she befriended through an online game platform, Urdu daily, Jang, reported.
In a separate incident, a gang of dacoits attacked a Hindu temple and adjoining homes belonging to Hindus with rocket launchers in the Kashmore area of Southern Sindh province on Sunday. There was no loss of life in the attack.
This comes a day after the ATS arrested a suspected agent of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in Lucknow on charges of supplying “vital information about defence establishments” to his handlers in the neighbouring country.
RW group’s threat
Haider’s questioning also comes at a time when a little-known right-wing group in Greater Noida has threatened a protest if the woman, who claimed to have converted to Hinduism, is not evicted from the country “within 72 hours”.
Possible arrest
“They [Haider and Meena] may or may not be arrested after the questioning, depending on the outcome of the interrogation in the sensitive matter that pertains to national security,” an ATS official told PTI.
Local police are separately investigating the case and are yet to file a chargesheet.
The backstory
Haider, 30, had entered India along with her four children in a bus from Nepal in May in order to live with Meena, 22, who lives in the Rabupura area of Greater Noida.
On July 4, Haider was arrested by local police for entering India illegally and Meena was held for sheltering illegal immigrants.
However, they were both granted bail by a local court on July 7 and have been living together with her four children in a house in the Rabupura area.
Meanwhile
Pakistan’s intelligence agencies have informed the country’s government that love was the “only” factor that led a mother of four to sneak into India to live with a Hindu man whom she befriended through an online game platform, Urdu daily, Jang, reported.
In a separate incident, a gang of dacoits attacked a Hindu temple and adjoining homes belonging to Hindus with rocket launchers in the Kashmore area of Southern Sindh province on Sunday. There was no loss of life in the attack.
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