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The India-Nepal border is guarded by the SSB. On Thursday, official sources said that an inspector and a jawan have been fired for allegedly not doing their jobs properly when they checked the bus in which Pakistani resident Seema Haider entered the country and travelled to Greater Noida, near Delhi.
On May 13 at the border district of Siddharth Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, Inspector Sujit Kumar Verma and Head constable Chandra Kamal Kalita of the 43rd Battalion of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) were tasked with inspecting the passenger vehicle as it entered India from the neighbouring country.
Haider and her four children were on board this vehicle.
According to the sources, the SSB inspector and the soldier have been suspended pending a thorough investigation. A full court of inquiry procedure will be initiated against them, and all aspects of the incident that were not investigated during the preliminary investigation, as well as the role of other personnel on assignment that day, will be investigated.
After hearing that Haider had been caught in Greater Noida, the force began a basic investigation, they said.
Even though they were asked many times, SSB officers refused to say anything about what had happened.
The SSB is a paramilitary group that works for the Union home ministry. Its job is to protect the open international front between India and Nepal, which is 1,751 km long and on the country’s eastern flank.
Sources said that it was “humanly impossible” to verify and examine the documents of every person going from Nepal to India because the border was open and people from both countries could travel without a visa.
Nationals from third-world nations aren’t permitted to cross this border without a valid visa and travel papers, however, they said that it is very hard to tell who is who among people from India’s neighbours because they look and act alike.
Haider, who is 30 years old and from the Pakistani province of Sindh, said she came to India to live with her Indian boyfriend Sachin Meena, who is 22, in the Greater Noida neighbourhood of Rabupura.
She was caught on July 4 for entering India illegally without a visa through Nepal with her four children, all of whom were younger than seven years old. Meena was also put in jail for giving shelter to the illegal immigrants. The two people met in 2019 through the online game PUBG.
But on July 7, a local court let them both out on bail. Since then, they have been living together with the woman’s four kids in a house in Rabupura.
Haider has also said that she doesn’t want to go back to Pakistan and wants to live with Sachin. She has also said that she became a Hindu.
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