THANE: Sara* risked all of it for love and safety-leaving behind her allegedly abusive husband and creating an entire new id to cross over to Pakistan together with her two younger daughters and marry her Instagram boyfriend. An FIR has now been filed in Thane towards the 23-year-old for allegedly forging paperwork to acquire a passport and a Pakistani visa beneath a faux id.
As per a senior police official, the lady, who hailed from UP, moved to Thane final 12 months to stay together with her mom to flee her allegedly abusive husband. She quickly befriended a person from Pakistan on Instagram and ultimately fell in love with him. After a while, the 2 determined to get married and stay collectively in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the place the boyfriend stayed and labored.
Nervous that her marital standing would are available in the way in which of her new love and that her husband would monitor her down, the lady determined to create a brand new id to keep away from getting caught, stated sources. “To make this doable, she allegedly modified her identify, obtained faux Aadhaar and PAN playing cards and cast new start certificates for her daughters by means of a store in Thane. She used these faux paperwork to use for a passport and even obtained the police verification executed,” stated a police officer.
She accomplished the method by final Oct, went to Abbottabad on a one-month visa together with her daughters and married the person. Whereas staying there, she utilized for a six-month visa extension however didn’t safe it. Sources stated she got here beneath central companies’ lens after the Indian Excessive Fee there alerted them to the bid to increase her visa. They stated the companies saved tabs on her there, however her fraud was uncovered solely after she returned to Thane someday round Nov final 12 months after her mom took sick.
The FIR was registered on July 20 towards the lady and the shopkeeper who helped procure the faux paperwork for dishonest and forgery in addition to beneath related sections of Indian Passport Act. No arrest has to this point been made, even because the probe is underway.
An official laid the blame at police’s door, saying had they been extra diligent with the verification, she may have been caught earlier. (*Identify modified to guard id)
