Woman tries to cross over to Pakistan to meet her lover, arrested

GS Paul

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 5

In a cross-border “love story” that started online, a 25-year-old married woman from Rajasthan reached Amritsar allegedly to cross the Attari-Wagah border to meet her lover from Pakistan.

Neither did she possess any valid visa documents nor revealed the credentials of the Pakistan-based man whom she was supposed to meet. Consequently, she was held up by the B-division police and her maternal family members were informed in Rajasthan.

Police incharge Amarjit Singh said the woman was carrying some jewellery and cash and her family members would reach here in a day. “According to her, she lived in Maharajganj (UP), but she gave us the contact number of her maternal home in Rajasthan. Nothing objectionable has been found from her possession, but she appears to be mentally unstable, may be due to some domestic dispute,” he said.

The woman, a mother of two-and-a-half-year-old son, met the Pakistan man during an online ludo game 10-12 days ago and later connected on Facebook and WhatsApp.

She said he (Pakistani) had invited me to Pakistan. “When I asked how I could reach there, he told me to come to the Attari-Wagah border,” she said.

As she told an auto-rickshaw driver to drop her at the Attari-Wagah border, another cop deputed at Jallianwala Bagh, Ranjit Singh, overheard the conversation.