New Delhi: Seema Haider, a Pakistani woman facing investigation for illegally entering India and living with her Noida-based fellow Indian Sachin Meena, has filed a petition before President Draupadi Murmu, seeking Indian citizenship. According to media reports, in her mercy petition filed to President Murmu through advocate AP Singh, Seema Haider has requested that she should be granted Indian citizenship on the basis of her marriage with an Indian national – Sachin Meena.
‘Now I am the daughter-in-law of India, I should be allowed to stay here’
Claiming that she is now India’s daughter-in-law, Seema Haider has sought permission from the government to stay in India. In his petition, he claimed that he was deeply influenced by Indian culture and traditions. She has also said that she has completely converted to Hinduism and is trying her best to learn Indian culture, customs and traditions. His petition to the President comes at a time when he is under investigation over his illegal entry into India and his suspected links with Pakistan’s spy agency ISI.
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The mystery surrounding Seema Haider, now being called Pakistani ‘sister-in-law’, is being unraveled on the basis of intense questioning by UP ATS and other intelligence agencies about her ‘unknown’ journey from Pakistan to India via Nepal It has become even deeper after the revelations.
Seema Haider claims she met her Indian partner, whom she married in Nepal, in a private chat room in 2020 while playing the online mobile game PUBG. Their friendship over conversations on PUBG and then WhatsApp blossomed into love to such an extent that she crossed the border with her four children to Nepal in March this year to spend a week with Sachin Meena in a hotel room in Kathmandu.
In May this year, he traveled from Karachi to Dubai and then to Nepal before illegally entering India. Seema Haider and Sachin Meena were arrested by the authorities on July 4 on charges of being in India illegally and were granted bail by a local court three days later.
Since then, the Pakistani sister-in-law has been making media headlines and has given several interviews to TV news channels, dismissing the claims of being a Pakistani spy. Talking exclusively to Zee Media, Seema Haider claimed that she is a normal woman, not a terrorist and wants to stay in India forever. They also claimed that they do not have to return to Pakistan where “death awaits them.” Amidst all this, the owner of a hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, where the two stayed in March, claimed that the couple had booked a room under false names.
‘Seema, Sachin booked rooms under fake names’
According to news agency ANI, both stayed in a hotel in Nepal for about a week in the month of March. Nepal’s hotelier Ganesh Roka Magar had told news agency ANI that the couple stayed in the room most of the time during their stay there.
New Vinayak Rolpa Jaljala Rukmeli Guest House owner said, “They came to my hotel in March (2023) and stayed for seven-eight days and then moved out of the hotel.”
‘Seema-Sachin used to stay locked in hotel room most of the time’
“Most of the time he used to stay in the room… He used to go out of the hotel in the morning and evening but he used to come back at very short notice as our hotel usually closes after 9:30-10 pm. ” Every day and he used to come two hours earlier… he mostly ate fruits brought from outside and here in the hotel he only ordered Nepali Veg Thali and did not go out that often,” Roka Magar recalled.
‘Seema-Sachin paid in Indian currency’
He further disclosed that Sachin first came to the hotel and booked the room and told them that his wife was on the way and the woman came the next day. “Then this pairing lasted for about 7 days. While checking out of the hotel, Seema checked out first and then Sachin left the next day… only both of them came, no kids with them…”, Roka Magar said.
The hotel owner also showed the entry logbook and said, “When I saw in the news, I realized that they are Sachin and Seema as they had entered their name as ‘Shivansh’.” “They made the cash payment in Indian currency notes,” he said.
IB seeks more details from SSB, UP Police
Meanwhile, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (UP-ATS) and central agencies have intensified their probe against Seema Haider. The Central Intelligence Agency – IB – has sought reports from Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Uttar Pradesh Police on Seema Haider, who traveled from Nepal to reach Noida from Karachi in Pakistan. A senior official confirmed that central agencies, alerted about Seema Haider, have sought detailed reports from the SSB and the UP police.