Let Anju Die There: Father Of Indian Woman After She Went To Pakistan To Meet Her FB Friend

The father of the Indian woman who went to Pakistan to meet her Facebook friend has said that she is as good as dead to him for ditching her family.

"The way she ran away leaving her two children and husband behind.... she did not even think of her children. If she wanted to do this, she should have divorced her husband first. She is no more (alive) for us," PTI quoted her father Gaya Prasad Thomas as saying.

On asking about Anju getting converted to Islam to marry the Pakistani, Thomas said he has no information about it. "What will happen to her children, her husband? Who will take care of her children - 13-year-old girl and five-year-old boy? She has ruined the future of her children and the husband. Who will take care of her kids....We will have to do it," he asked.

Thomas also made it clear that he has no plans to appeal to the Indian government to bring her back. "I pray...to let her die there," he added.

Speaking to reporters at Bouna village in the Gwalior district of Madhya Pradesh, Thomas revealed that he was not on talking terms with his daughter and she only spoke to her mother.

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"I don't know how she got the passport, when she got the visa," he said.

When questioned about speculations suggesting a connection to the incident due to his village's proximity to Tekanpur town, which houses a major unit of the Border Security Force (BSF), Thomas strongly refuted the notion.

"No one raised any such issue with us. Only you (media) are raising this question. My kids have no criminal tendencies. I am ready to have any probe in the matter," he said.

On Monday, Thomas had described his daughter as "mentally disturbed and eccentric."

On the other hand, Anju's husband Arvind told the media in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan that she left home on Thursday on the pretext of going to Jaipur but later the family came to know that she was in Pakistan. He said he was hopeful that she would return home.

The 34-year-old Indian woman left for Pakistan days ago to meet a man named Nasrullah. They had been in touch since 2019 through Facebook. Reports claimed that they tied the knot earlier in the day after she converted to Islam and changed her name to Fatima.

In the latest interview, Anju and her friend denied the reports of tying the knot.