PTI

Noida, July 17

The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday questioned Pakistani citizen Seema Haider, who entered India illegally in May and is now dwelling together with her Indian companion Sachin Meena in Greater Noida, officers stated.

The interrogation was nonetheless underway within the night with Sachin and his father Netrapal Singh additionally being questioned, they stated.

This comes a day after UP ATS arrested a suspected agent of Pakistan’s intelligence company Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in Lucknow on prices of supplying “vital information about defence establishments” to his handlers within the neighbouring nation.

Seema’s questioning additionally comes at a time when a little-known right-wing fringe group in Greater Noida has threatened a protest if Haider, who illegally entered India together with her 4 kids, will not be evicted from the nation “within 72 hours”.

A senior police officer confirmed to PTI that Seema, Sachin and Netrapal Singh have been being interrogated by the ATS on Monday and that the native police weren’t concerned in it.

“They 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,” a UP ATS official instructed PTI.

Local police are individually investigating the case and are but to file a chargesheet, the officer stated.

Meanwhile, a little-known fringe group issued a menace that if Seema Haider and her 4 kids should not evicted from the nation “within 72 hours”, they’ll begin a protest.

In a purported video posted on social media that surfaced Monday, a person who recognized himself because the nationwide president of the group claimed that “Seema is a spy” and “part of some conspiracy” in opposition to the nation.

When requested about safety preparations for Haider and Meena, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Saad Miya Khan instructed PTI that no extra safety has been supplied to the couple.

“Police were deployed in large numbers in the village where Sachin and Seema currently live for crowd management after the couple walked out of jail on July 8,” Khan stated.

Additional DCP (Greater Noida) Ashok Kumar stated there was no regulation and order situation within the space the place the cross-border couple lives. “We are keeping a constant vigil on the situation,” Kumar instructed PTI.

Seema, 30, had entered India alongside together with her 4 kids in a bus from Nepal in May to be able to reside together with her companion Sachin, 22, who lives within the Rabupura space of Greater Noida in Gautam Buddh Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh. The couple had first obtained in contact in 2019 over on-line sport PUBG.

On July 4, Seema was arrested by native police for coming into India illegally and Sachin was held for sheltering unlawful immigrants. However, they have been each granted bail by a neighborhood court docket on July 7 and have been dwelling collectively together with her 4 kids in a home within the Rabupura space.

During her interactions with the media, Seema stated she doesn’t want to return to Pakistan and needs to reside with Sachin in India solely. She additionally claimed to have transformed to Hinduism.

In Pakistan, Seema’s household and neighbours instructed PTI that they are not looking for her to return. Meanwhile, a gang of dacoits attacked a Hindu temple and adjoining houses belonging to Hindus with rocket launchers within the Kashmore space of Southern Sindh province on Sunday, a police officer stated. There was no lack of life within the assault.

The assault got here days after dacoits within the Kashmore and Ghotki riverine areas had threatened violence at Hindu locations of worship and its group members in retaliation to Seema shifting to India to reside with Sachin.

Pakistan’s intelligence companies, in the meantime, have knowledgeable the nation’s authorities that “love” was the “only” issue that precipitated the mom of 4 to sneak into India to reside with a Hindu man, a media report stated on Monday.

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