Ludo chads....we won

Deputy commissioner of police, Whitefield, S Girish said Singh came in contact with 19-year-old Iqra Jeevani from Pakistan’s Hyderabad through an online game. “The man used to work as a security guard at a private firm and used to play Ludo online. Last year, he came in contact with a minor girl and asked his Pakistani girlfriend to come to Bengaluru so they could get married. They came to India rough Nepal in September 2022,” the DCP said.

Explaining the investigation that led to the arrest, Girish said that after coming to Bengaluru in September, Jeevani was living in the labourer quarters at Bellandur police station limits. “Since she was missing her family, she used to make calls to Hyderabad in Pakistan several times. These calls were intercepted by the intelligence agencies and based on the inputs we made the arrest,” said Girish.

This is not the first case in Bengaluru, where an Indian in love with a Pakistani brought her to India illegally. On May 25, 2017, an Indian and three Pakistani nationals were arrested in Bengaluru for allegedly staying in India under fake identities. They were living in South Bengaluru’s Kumaraswamy Layout for the past nine months. Besides their Pakistani passports, the trio was found to be in possession of Indian voter identity and Aadhar cards.

During interrogation, Shihab and Sameera told police that they met each other in 2012 when they were working in Oman. Sameera’s mother had passed away, while her father, who had remarried, was not in touch with her.

Sameera found solace in Shahib and they got married three years later. Sameera was pregnant with her first child when her estranged father came to Oman upon learning about his daughter’s marriage to an Indian. She was taken back to Karachi and was kept under house arrest. During this period, Sameera had a miscarriage, she told the Bengaluru Police.

With the help of Sameera’s cousin Kirhon and her fiancée Khasif, Shihab made plans to take her out of Karachi. Realising that her father would find them in Oman again, Shihab decided to take Sameera to India. Kirhon and Khasif, who faced opposition from their families to their marriage, tagged along.

The couple flew from Muscat to Kathmandu in September 2016. They subsequently crossed the Indian border in Bihat by road, and travelled to Patna, before arriving in Bengaluru. They were arrested by police after a police man who grew suspicious of Sameera’s Urdu accent questioned them.

In 2022, Sameera and her four-year-old daughter were deported after they spent 5 years in jail.

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