TANEE: Sara* risked everything for love and safety. She left her allegedly abusive husband, created an entirely new identity, took her two young daughters and travelled to Pakistan to marry her Instagram boyfriend. Now, an investigation report has been filed in TANEE against 23-year-old Sara for allegedly forging documents to obtain a passport and Pakistani visa under a false identity.
According to a senior police official, the woman, originally from Uttar Pradesh, had moved to Thane last year to live with her mother to escape her allegedly abusive husband. She soon became friends with a Pakistani man on Instagram and eventually fell in love. After some time, the two got married and decided to live together in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where her boyfriend stays and works.
Worried that her marital status would get in the way of her new lover and that her husband would track her down, the woman decided to create a new identity to avoid getting caught, sources said. “To make this possible, she changed her name, obtained fake Aadhaar and PAN cards and allegedly forged new birth certificates for her daughters from a shop in Thane. She used these forged documents to apply for passports and also got her identity verified by the police,” the police officer said.
She completed the formalities by October last year and went to Abbottabad with her daughters on a one-month visa, where she married the man. During her stay, she applied for a six-month visa extension, but was unable to get it. Sources said she came under the radar of central government agencies after the local Indian embassy informed them of her visa extension request. Government agencies continued to monitor her there, but her misconduct was only discovered after she returned to Thane around November last year, when her mother fell ill.
An FIR under cheating, forgery and relevant sections of the Indian Passport Act was registered against the woman and the shopkeeper who helped her procure the fake documents on July 20. Investigations are ongoing but no arrests have been made so far.
The official blamed the police, saying that if they had investigated the case more seriously, she might have been arrested sooner.
According to a senior police official, the woman, originally from Uttar Pradesh, had moved to Thane last year to live with her mother to escape her allegedly abusive husband. She soon became friends with a Pakistani man on Instagram and eventually fell in love. After some time, the two got married and decided to live together in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where her boyfriend stays and works.
Worried that her marital status would get in the way of her new lover and that her husband would track her down, the woman decided to create a new identity to avoid getting caught, sources said. “To make this possible, she changed her name, obtained fake Aadhaar and PAN cards and allegedly forged new birth certificates for her daughters from a shop in Thane. She used these forged documents to apply for passports and also got her identity verified by the police,” the police officer said.
She completed the formalities by October last year and went to Abbottabad with her daughters on a one-month visa, where she married the man. During her stay, she applied for a six-month visa extension, but was unable to get it. Sources said she came under the radar of central government agencies after the local Indian embassy informed them of her visa extension request. Government agencies continued to monitor her there, but her misconduct was only discovered after she returned to Thane around November last year, when her mother fell ill.
An FIR under cheating, forgery and relevant sections of the Indian Passport Act was registered against the woman and the shopkeeper who helped her procure the fake documents on July 20. Investigations are ongoing but no arrests have been made so far.
The official blamed the police, saying that if they had investigated the case more seriously, she might have been arrested sooner.
