UP DGP: After questioning, 5 Pakistani authorised passports & 1 unused passport recovered from Seema Haider

After Pakistan resident Seema Haider was questioned for two days by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad , the police said they have recovered five Pakistan authorised passports, an unused passport, and an identity card among other things from her.

According to a note from the office of the UP director general of police , an investigation is ongoing into these documents along with the four mobile phones and two video cassettes they found on Seema.

“As far as illegal entry to India is concerned, the district police are taking necessary legal action. Currently, all the accused are out on bail,” said the office.

Before this, a senior ATS official had said they are looking into the espionage angle and Seema, 27, had crossed the Nepal border to enter India.

The official had also said Seema, along with her Indian husband Sachin Meena, 22, and his father Netrapal Singh were being questioned to confirm if she is a ‘spy’ or not.

The Gautam Buddha Nagar police had also written to the Intelligence Bureau and UP ATS to investigate the evidence that they had gathered so far.

Giving details about the route the Pakistani woman took to get into India, the note said, “On March 10, Seema Haider left Pakistan from the Karachi airport and reached the Sharjah airport and then from there to Kathmandu airport, Nepal on a 15-day tourist visa.

On March 17, she went back to Pakistan from Nepal through the same route”.

“On March 8, Sachin Meena reached Gorakhpur. On March 9, he reached to Sonauli border from Gorakhpur and left for Kathmandu. He reached Kathmandu on March 10 early morning and booked a room in the New Vinayak Hotel in the city.

He received Seema Haider from the airport in the evening and both stayed in the hotel till March 17”.

According to the note, Seema Haider had left Pakistan for the second time on May 10 on a 15-day tourist visa.

“She reached the Karachi airport with four of her children. From Karachi, she went to Dubai and then early morning the next day, she left for Kathmandu. She took a public transport van and reached Pokhara, Nepal in the evening.

She stayed in Pokhara for a night in a hotel (whose name she does not remember),

Officials said on March 12 morning, Seema Haider took a bus from Pokhara and entered India via the Rupandehi-Khunwa border, Siddharthnagar district.

“She came to Rabupura cut in Gautam Buddha Nagar via Lucknow and Agra. Sachin Meena had already rented a room in Rabupura (in Greater Noida) and both stayed together in that room since then,” said the UP DGP office.

On July 4, Seema, Sachin Meena, and his father Netrapal Singh were arrested under Section 14 of the Foreigners Act, Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (criminal act done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), and sections 3,4,5 of the Passport Act, 1920, for entering India “illegally” and providing shelter to the woman.