A Pakistani lady and an Indian man who met and fell in love in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds are going through severe jail time after being arrested in India. A New York Instances report says the pair had been arrested simply two months after they started secretly dwelling within the metropolis of Higher Noida, she for getting 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 finally started speaking via social media and phone calls. “Sachin used to speak to somebody late at evening, as late as 2-3 am,” his uncle Birbal Meena informed the Instances. “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 per week collectively, they returned residence, 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 residence international locations, 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.
Satirically, it seems that they had been busted due to their efforts to make the whole lot authorized. A Instances of India report says the pair went to an area 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 after I discovered that she and her kids (three daughters and a son) had been carrying Pakistani passports,” the lawyer mentioned. “She was making inquiries in regards to the technique of getting married in India. She mentioned she needed to marry Sachin.”
The lawyer had certainly one of his associates observe them after they left his workplace. “Once I discovered 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 international locations 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 no less than partly the remarkably heavy-handed response of Indian authorities to the presence of 1 Pakistani Muslim lady and her 4 kids: The Instances 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 no less than, not motivated by something sinister. Meena solely earned about $100 a month at his (apparently now former) job at an area retailer, and police mentioned he hadn’t lied about his monetary or social standing, or made another guarantees he could not hold, 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 abilities.”
A BBC report says Haider and Meena have each been jailed for 14 days whereas an investigation is carried out, and might be going through 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.