Indian woman who went to Pakistan to marry Facebook friend returns to country
Amritsar: Anju, an Indian mother of two children who travelled to Pakistan to marry her Facebook friend, returned to India through the Wagah-Attari border on Wednesday, officials said.
Anju alias Fatima, 34, had travelled to a remote village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan to marry her Facebook friend Nasrullah, leaving her children in India.
Her 29-year-old Pakistani husband accompanied her up to the Wagah border.
On reaching India, she was not allowed to interact with the media and straightway went to the airport to catch a flight to Delhi.
At the Shri Guru Ramdas International Airport here, Anju was spotted wearing a burqa.
She told the media there, ''I am here in India to meet my Indian family. I came back to India of my own volition....'' Anju had travelled to Pakistan via the Wagah-Attari border in July with a visa, converted to Islam, changed her name to Fatima after getting married to Nasrullah, whom she had befriended on Facebook four years ago.
Anju's Indian husband Arvind had said that she left home on the pretext of going to Jaipur but later the family came to know that she was in Pakistan. Anju, along with her Indian husband, used to live in the Bhiwadi area of Rajasthan.
She hails from Kailor village in Uttar Pradesh.
On Wednesday, Bhiwadi's Additional Superintendent of Police Dilip Saini said they had no information about the return of Anju.
Police sources said that Arvind no longer resides in Bhiwadi and has relocated to somewhere with their children.
#WATCH | Anju, who had travelled to Pakistan in July, arrived at the Delhi airport. pic.twitter.com/ssg3IzDWYw
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Karnataka HC grants interim bail to BJP MLA in rowdy sheeter murder case
Bengaluru (PTI): The Karnataka High Court on Friday granted interim bail to BJP MLA Byrathi Basavaraj in the rowdy sheeter Biklu Shiva murder case.
The relief came after Basavaraj moved the High Court challenging the rejection of his anticipatory bail plea by the Special Court for People's Representatives.
A bench headed by Justice G Basavaraj, which heard the matter on December 26, ordered interim bail and adjourned the hearing of the anticipatory bail application to January 6.
The court also directed that Basavaraj be released immediately if he was arrested and instructed him to fully cooperate with the ongoing investigation.
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During the hearing, senior advocate Sandesh Chout, appearing for the MLA, submitted that Basavaraj had complied with the investigation process whenever notices were issued.
He pointed out that despite this, the investigating agency had not filed a chargesheet against Basavaraj and had failed to provide valid reasons for the delay.
The counsel further noted that Basavaraj had been protected from arrest between July 18 and December 19, and sought continuation of the same protection.
Accepting the submissions at this stage, the High Court granted interim relief and directed the government advocates to file their objections to the anticipatory bail plea.
Earlier, the Special Court for People's Representatives had dismissed Basavaraj's anticipatory bail application in the case, following which the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) issued a lookout notice against him.
