Seema Haider arrested on July 4...
New Delhi: On Friday, 21 July 2023, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said investigations are going on in the matter relating to Pakistani native Seema Haider. She crossed over to India over two months ago.
Ms. Haider is 30-years-old, hails from Sindh province in Pakistan, and entered India illegally with her four children in a bus via Nepal on May 13.
"We are aware of this case as she has appeared in court. She has been granted bail. The matter is being investigated," MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said.
"We will let everyone know more when there are developments.
It is a judicial matter and investigations are going and I would not like to say anything more," he said.
Mr. Bagchi was responding to media questions on the case at his weekly press briefing.
Ms. Haider says she had come to live with her Indian lover Sachin Meena who stays in the Rabupura area of Greater Noida.
While Seema was arrested on July 4 for illegally entering India without a visa via Nepal with her four children, all aged below seven years, Sachin was put behind bars for sheltering the illegal immigrants.
However, they both were granted bail by a local court on July 7 and have been living together along with her four children in a house in the Rabupura area.
The couple first had a word in 2019 while playing the online game PUBG.
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