Bengaluru: 3 Pak nationals among four arrested staying illegal in city
Bengaluru: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) police arrested three Pakistani nationals including two women, and an Indian man who not only helped the three to infiltrate and settle in the city over the last nine months but also to procure genuine identity documents after furnishing their fake names and other personal details.
The arrested have been identified as Sameera (26), Kiron Gulam Ali (25) and Khasif Shamshuddin (30) all three cousins from Karachi in Pakistan, and Mohammad Shihab (30), the native of Palghat in Kerala.
All the four, acting as married couples, had come to Bengaluru from Qatar where they all worked together.
According to police, Mohammad Shihab fell in love with Sameera who was staying behind his office. When Shihab expressed his desire to marry Sameera, her parents outrightly denied as they did not want to get their daughter married to an Indian. Subsequently, Sameera’s two brothers thrashed Shihab and took her back to Karachi.
Sameera in Karachi, with the help of her cousin Kiron Gulam Ali in Qatar, was in touch with Shihab over the phone. The couple made plans so that she can get back to Qatar from where they planned to come to India, the police said.
Meanwhile, Kiron Gulam Ali was also in love with one of their cousins, Khasif Shamshuddin in Qatar. Both their parents too were objecting to their marriage.
Hence Sameera and Shihab along with Kiron and Khasif jointly planned to get away from Qatar and come down to India and settle down with the help of Shihab, the police said.
The four of them travelled from Qatar to Bengaluru, via Muscat in Oman, Kathmandu in Nepal and Patna in Bihar after which they rented out a double bedroom house in KS Layout and were living there for nearly nine months, the police said.
CCB on Monday night received a tip-off about the three Pakistanis staying illegally and they rounded up their house in KS Layout where they along with Shihab were arrested. The police also recovered genuine Aadhar cards that were made in fake names for the three Pakistani nationals and several other IDs they were trying to get but were unsuccessful.
The three have been booked under several sections of Passport Act and Foreigner’s Act and Shihab has also been arrested for alleged conspiracy and abetment, the police said.
“Preliminary investigations reveal that their coming to India was over their parents objecting to their respective marriages. This is their version, and we are yet to verify those details, and we are not convinced with their claims. The city police are investigating the case with the help of IB and other state intelligence. We have kept the central intelligence agencies in the loop,” said Praveen Sood, City Police Commissioner to DH.
