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Cross-border love

'My daughter is as good as dead': Father of Indian woman who married Pakistan man crossing border

| @indiablooms | Jul 27, 2023, at 04:43 pm

The father of Rajasthani woman Anju who travelled to Pakistan and married her Facebook friend Nasrullah broke silence on the action of his daughter, whose cross-border love has caught the glare of people, media reports said.

Gaya Prasad Thomas, Anju's father, said as quoted by NDTV, "She is as good as dead for the family. She has no right to come back to India. If she returns, then she has to face strict punishment. What she did is wrong and people who do that deserve punishment."

"India is a respectable country and I'm ashamed of what she did and apologised to the government. He added that she doesn't have any right to take her two children. Don't let her touch them," he added.

"Her action and name are a taint on us therefore I requested to remove my name from my daughter's name," Thomas said.

Reportedly, Anju has converted to Islam.

Cross-border love

As per reports, the woman, named Anju, fell in love with 29-year-old Nasrulla, her Facebook friend whom she met on social media in 2019.

In India, Anju was married to Arvind in Rajasthan and they both have a 15-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son.

The 34-year-old, who was born in Uttar Pradesh, told her husband, as he claimed, that she was going to Jaipur.

In Pakistan, she was staying at Nasrullah's home in the Upper Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Though Anju was initially under the custody of Pakistan Police, she was later released after the verification of her travel documents by the district police.

They tied the knot in a local court of a district and sessions judge amid tight security.

Both appeared in the court in Upper Dir in the presence of family members of Nasrullah, police personnel, and lawyers, the police.

According to Geo News, the Indian woman has been shifted to her home from the court under police security.

As per the statement, they have signed the nikkah on their own will and Fatima told the court that she willingly came to Pakistan.

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