A 26-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh was arrested and a minor Pakistani girl was detained for forging documents and illegally entering India. They were picked up by the police in Bengaluru where they had been illegally living since September last year.
The man, identified as Mulayam Singh Yadav, worked as a security guard in Bengaluru. He came in touch with the woman, Iqra Jeewani, while playing an online game. They fell in love and made the plan to forge documents and bring her to India so that the duo could live together.
The Hindustan Times quoted Bengaluru's Whitefield Deputy Commissioner of Police S Girish as saying, “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. Recently, he asked his Pakistani girlfriend to come to Bengaluru so they could get married. They made a plan to get her over to India through Nepal in September 2022,” the DCP said.
According to the police, the duo was living in the labourers' accommodation under the Bellandur police station limits. DCP S Girish said the girl was taken to the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO). Yadav was booked under IPC sections 420 (cheating), 495 (concealing marriage), 468 (forgery), and 471 (forging documents) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), The Indian Express reported.
Govinda Reddy, the owner of the property where the couple had been living, was also booked under Section 7 of the Foreigners Act. The FIR was lodged against him as he failed to inform the police about the girl staying illegally on his Sarjapur Road premises.
Yadav did not initially was unaware that she was from Pakistan's Hyderabad. However, once he got to know, he asked the girl to marry him. Yadav and the girl reportedly got married in Nepal's Kathmandu, after which the duo got into India through the India-Nepal border around September 28 last year.
The couple then forged an Aadhaar card, changing the girl's name to Rava Yadav.