Pakistani Citizen Khatija Mehrin Arrested For Staying Illegally In Karnataka

On Thursday, a Pakistani citizen, Khatija Mehrin was arrested for illegally residing in Karnataka, according to police.

The Bhatkal police said that she had entered India in 2015, by taking help from some agents. She then started residing in the Navayata colony with her husband who is from Karnataka's Bhatkal, and their three children, since that year.

Karnataka | A Pakistani citizen Khatija Mehrin arrested (9th June) by police. She was living illegally from 2015 in Navayata colony with Bhatkal origin husband and 3 children. She also has birth certificate, Aadhar card, ration card registered in Bhatkal: Bhatkal Police

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Karnataka | She entered India in 2015 with the support of some agents. Case registered; further investigation is on. She has been sent to judicial custody till June 23: Bhatkal Police

— ANI (@ANI) June 10, 2021

She has now been sent to judicial custody, until June 23.

Khatija Mehrin got married to her husband,  Mohiddin Rukkuddin in Dubai in 2014. The police said that she had travelled on a tourist visa to India for three months, and entered the country illegally in 2015.

It was during her stay in India, that she gave birth to three children. She then obtained a ration card, Aadhaar card, PAN card and a voter identity card, according to reports. She has now been accused of producing fake documents, for making all the aforementioned documents.

Someone informed the police on the matter, soon , Khatija Mehrin was arrested and produced before a local court, which remanded her to judicial custody. Superintendent of Police, Uttara Kannada, Shivaprakash Devaraju told The Hindu that she has been arrested for violating the Foreigners Act, 1946.

Pakistani national living in Uttar Pradesh for 30 years

Earlier this year, it came to notice that a 65-year-old woman from Pakistan, had been living in a village in Uttar Pradesh, for about 30 years. She was presiding as the interim head of the village panchayat since last year, until authorities found out that did not have an Indian citizenship.

The woman named Bano Begum had resigned as the interim panchayat chief in December, after an investigation into a complaint registered by a villager started.

Officials said that her long-term visa was valid, but she had obtained her ration and Aadhar cards, by giving false information.

"The complaints were probed by SDM Jalesar SP Gupta and DPRO Alok Priyadarshi, and were found to be true," District Magistrate of Etah Sukhlal Bharti said.