A Pakistani woman and an Indian man who fell in love on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds have been arrested in India and face a heavy sentence.a new york times The two were reportedly arrested just two months after they began living in secret in Greater Noida, with her on charges of illegal immigration and him on charges of harboring fugitives.
Seema Gram Haider and Sachin Meena first met at PUBG in 2019 after Haider’s husband moved to Saudi Arabia for work. Eventually they started talking through social media and over the phone. “Sachin was talking to someone in the middle of the night, 2-3am,” his uncle Barbar Meena told The Times. “Then he confessed that he was in love with a Pakistani woman and was going to marry him.”
The family did not approve of having an affair with an “enemy woman”, but the two nevertheless met in March in Nepal. They returned to Japan after spending a week together, but met again in May in Nepal. For the second visit, Haider took his four children with them, and they all went to India without returning to their home countries. The couple and their children lived together briefly in a town not far from India’s capital, New Delhi.
Ironically, he seems to have been arrested for trying to legalize everything.a Indian era According to reports, the two went to a local lawyer to discuss Haider’s residency and marriage plans, but after learning that Haider was from Pakistan, the lawyer, instead of cooperating with them in resolving the issue, said they had two children. It is said that he turned the person over to the police.
“I was surprised when I learned that she and her children (three daughters and one son) had Pakistani passports,” the lawyer said. “She was inquiring about her marriage formalities in India. She said she wanted to marry Sachin.”
The lawyer had one of his colleagues follow them out of the office. “I called the police when I found out they were living in a house in Labupura,” he said.
It reflects the relationship between Hindu-majority India and Islamic Pakistan. Both nuclear powers have fought multiple wars since the founding of Pakistan in 1947, and tensions between the two countries remain high. India, too, is pursuing increasingly violent and brutal policies. oppression against Muslims in recent years.
Meena is part of India’s Hindu majority, but Haider is a Muslim, which explains the unusually hardline response by Indian authorities to the presence of a Pakistani Muslim woman and her four children. May explain, at least in part: The Times of India reported that the arrests of Haider and Meena were aided by the Uttar Pradesh counter-terrorism unit, which was also investigated by the country’s intelligence services. We are promoting.
However, their love seems to be genuine. At least it doesn’t seem motivated by some sinister motive. Meena earns only about $100 a month from her (now original) job at a local store, and police have told police that Mina lied about her financial and social status to attract Haider. He announced that he had not made any promises that he could not keep. Country.
“She knew he was not very strong financially,” said Labupura police chief Sudhir Kumar. “She wasn’t impressed with his work, but she was impressed with his PUBG skills.”
a BBC Haider and Meena have both been jailed for 14 days while the investigation is underway and could face several years in prison, reports said. Ms Haider’s husband, who she claims was abusive before leaving for Saudi Arabia, wants her and her children back in Pakistan, but her newlyweds is appealing to the Indian government to support the marriage.