A Pakistani lady and an Indian man who met and fell in love in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds are dealing with severe jail time after being arrested in India. A New York Occasions report says the pair had been arrested simply two months after they started secretly dwelling within the metropolis of Better Noida, she for coming into the nation illegally and he for harboring a fugitive.
Seema Ghulam Haider and Sachin Meena first encountered one another in PUBG in 2019 after Haider’s husband moved to Saudi Arabia for work. They ultimately started speaking by social media and phone calls. “Sachin used to speak to somebody late at night time, as late as 2-3 am,” his uncle Birbal Meena instructed the Occasions. “Then he confessed that he was in love with a Pakistani lady and supposed to marry her.”
The household didn’t approve of his reference to “a girl from an enemy nation,” however the pair nonetheless met up in Nepal in March. After spending every week collectively, they returned house, however they reunited in Nepal in Might. For his or her second assembly, Haider introduced her 4 kids, and as an alternative of returning to their respective house nations, all of them went to India. The couple and her kids lived collectively briefly in a city not removed from the Indian capital of New Delhi.
Paradoxically, it seems that they had been busted due to their efforts to make every little thing authorized. A Occasions of India report says the pair went to a neighborhood lawyer to debate her residency and their deliberate marriage, however as an alternative of serving to resolve their issues, the lawyer ratted them out to the cops when he found Haider was from Pakistan.
“I used to be startled once I came upon that she and her kids (three daughters and a son) had been carrying Pakistani passports,” the lawyer mentioned. “She was making inquiries concerning the strategy of getting married in India. She mentioned she wished to marry Sachin.”
The lawyer had one among his associates observe them after they left his workplace. “Once I realized they had been dwelling in a home in Rabupura, I knowledgeable the police,” he mentioned.
It displays the state of relations between Hindu-majority India and Pakistan, an Islamic nation. The 2 nuclear-armed nations have fought a number of wars since Pakistan’s creation in 1947, and tensions between them stay excessive. India has additionally pursued an more and more violent, brutal crackdown on Muslims lately.
Meena is a part of India’s Hindu majority however Haider is Muslim, and which will clarify a minimum of partially the remarkably heavy-handed response of Indian authorities to the presence of 1 Pakistani Muslim lady and her 4 kids: The Occasions of India report says native police had been assisted by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad within the arrest of Haider and Meena, and the nation’s intelligence companies are additionally investigating.
However plainly their love is actual—or a minimum of, not motivated by something sinister. Meena solely earned about $100 a month at his (apparently now former) job at a neighborhood retailer, and police mentioned he hadn’t lied about his monetary or social standing, or made another guarantees he could not maintain, to draw Haider to the nation.
“She knew that he was not financially very sturdy,” Rabupura police head Sudhir Kumar mentioned. “She was not impressed by his work, however by his PUBG expertise.”
A BBC report says Haider and Meena have each been jailed for 14 days whereas an investigation is carried out, and might be dealing with a number of years in jail. Haider’s husband, who she says was abusive previous to his departure for Saudi Arabia, needs her and the kids returned to Pakistan, however the brand new couple has appealed to the Indian authorities to assist them get married.