When love calls, even the most dangerous challenges can seem trivial. Crossing the volatile Indo-Pak border with her four children illegally, to meet the love of her life who lives in India, Seema Haider (30) from Pakistan, threw caution to the winds as her mind firmed up its decision.
Uttar Pradesh's Sachin Meena (22) and Pakistan's Seema Haider was arrested and jailed on July 4. Haider was jailed for illegally entering into India without a visa via Nepal with her four children—all aged below seven years. While Meena was arrested for sheltering the illegal immigrants.
After being released on Saturday, both reached Sachin's parents' house at Meena Thakuran colony in Greater Noida's Rabupura.
"Sachin Meena and Seema Haider were released from jail around 8.30 am after all paperwork was completed. Seema's four children who were also staying with her also went with her," Arun Pratap Singh, the superintendent of the Luksar Jail where they were lodged, told PTI.
Seema hails from Sindh province in Pakistan and was settled in Karachi after her marriage in 2014. She is married to Ghulam Haider, who is working in Saudi Arabia.
"I will end my life instead of going back to Pakistan. He (Sachin) also cannot live without me," Seema told reporters after the release.
Sachin, who works at a grocery store, also wants Seema to live with him in Greater Noida.
The duo is planning to get legal opinion on finding ways to stay in India. She is even ready to accept Hinduism.
The duo was granted bail by a civil court on Friday and ordered that as long as the case continues against them, Seema will not change her residence and live with Sachin, their advocate Hemant Krishna Parashar told PTI.
Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Saad Miya Khan said the case is under trial and police will file a charge sheet in court soon.
They both got in touch in 2019 during an online game PUBG and eventually grew closer to the extent that they decided to live together in India.
Seema's husband was unknown to all the story. After reading reports of her arrest, Ghulam Haider in a video message urged the Indian government to help him reunite with his wife.
However, Seema, reportedly told that it was threat to her life if she returns and she wish to stay here.
Sachin met Seema met in Kathmandu in Nepal where they stayed together for seven days and got secretly married. Later she went to Pakistan and Sachin returned to India.
Reportedly, Seema sold a plot for Pakistani rupees 12 lakh and arranged for flight tickets and visa for Nepal.
According to officials, in May she reached Nepal via Dubai and spent some time in the tourist city of Pokhara in the Himalayan nation. Then she took a bus for Delhi from Kathmandu and reached Greater Noida on May 13 with her children where Sachin had made arrangements for her to stay in a rented accommodation without disclosing her Pakistani identity, officials said.
Later, local police got a whiff of a Pakistani woman and her children's illegal presence and was taken to custody in Ballabhgarh in Haryana.