Hyderabad police on Thursday arrested a 24-year-old Pakistani national who entered India illegally through Kathmandu in Nepal in November 2022, officials familiar with the matter said.
Disclosing this to reporters on Friday, Hyderabad (South Zone) Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) P Sai Chaitanya said the accused has been identified as Faiz Mohammed from Swat village in Shangal district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. , Pakistan.
Chaitanya said that Faiz had been staying illegally in NM Guda of Kishan Bagh area of Hyderabad without any visa. “The police have seized a Pakistani passport and other documents in his possession,” he said.
The DCP said that Faiz had gone to Saif Zone, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, in December 2018 and had worked at a garment company in the sewing and finishing department. “In 2019, she met Neha Fatima (29) from Asad Baba Nagar Colony, Kishanbagh of Hyderabad in Sharjah and helped her get a job in another fashion industry as a tailor,” she said.
A few months later, Faiz and Fatima were married and blessed with a son. In August 2022, Fatima returned to Hyderabad and stayed at Kishan Bagh. Subsequently, her parents, Zubair Shaik and Afzal Begum, called Faiz and asked her to come to India, assuring her that they would manage to get her a local identity to stay in India.
On November 13, 2022, Faiz took a flight from Pakistan to Kathmandu via Dubai and from Kathmandu entered India by road without obtaining a valid visa from the relevant authority. Zubair and Afzal picked him up at the Nepal border driving some locals at the border and brought him to his house.
“Subsequently, the couple took Faiz to Aadhar’s office in Madhapur and registered him under the name of Mohd Ghouse, claiming that he was their son by presenting a fake birth certificate,” Chaitanya said.
However, police received a tip from local Kishan Bagh residents and detained Faiz on Thursday night. “Both Zubair and Afzal have fled and we have launched a search for them,” the DCP said, adding that a case on the matter has been registered at the Bahadurpura police station.
The police have confiscated various documents, including Fairz’s Pakistani passport, his Pakistani national identity card, a fake birth certificate, copies of plane tickets from Pakistan to Nepal via Dubai, boarding pass, room receipt from the hotel in Kathmandu etc.
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