Seema Haider Case: SSB Suspends Inspector, Head Constable At India-Nepal Border

In a recent development regarding the Seema Haider case, where a Pakistani woman crossed the border via Nepal to meet her Indian boyfriend, an inspector and a head constable have been suspended for alleged dereliction of duty.

On August 2, the Sashstra Seema Bal (SSB), responsible for guarding the India-Nepal border, suspended Inspector Sujit Kumar Verma and Head Constable Chandra Kamal Kalita from the 43rd Battalion. They were held responsible for checking a passenger vehicle on May 13 in the border district of Siddharth Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, which crossed over to India from the neighboring country. Seema Haider, along with her four children, was on board this bus.

Seema Haider, a 30-year-old woman from the Sindh province in Pakistan, stated that she came to India to live with her Indian lover Sachin Meena, aged 22, in the Rabupura area of Greater Noida.

She was arrested on July 4 for illegally entering India without a visa via Nepal, along with her four children, all aged below seven years. Meena was also arrested for sheltering illegal immigrants. However, both were granted bail by a local court on July 7 and have been living together with the woman's four children in a house in Rabupura.