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Agartala, Oct 13 (IANS) Central and state intelligence and security officials are continuing the interrogation of a 50-year-old Pakistani woman arrested in southern Tripura. Officials gave this information on Monday.
A senior police officer said senior Tripura Police officials as well as several Central Intelligence officers are continuing to interrogate the woman, who is a resident of Pakistan’s Sheikhupura district.
“The woman was produced before a local court on Monday, which remanded her to three-day police custody. Joint interrogation by various central intelligence agencies will continue until complete details about the woman and her intentions emerge,” the officer told IANS.
The woman was arrested by Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel from Sabroom railway station in southern Tripura on Saturday night after she reached there by Kanchenjunga Express, he said.
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According to the officer, the arrested woman speaks in Hindi and first she claimed that she lives in Purani Basti of Delhi and when asked, she told that her name is Sahina Parveen. However, she could not produce any valid identity document in her favor.
The officer said he was found to have several Pakistani contact numbers, which were hidden in sheets of paper tied around his waist.
During interrogation, the woman initially claimed that she was a Pakistani national from Punjab province, and said that three years ago she entered Bangladesh and later entered India through West Bengal with the help of an agent.
She told authorities that from West Bengal she moved to Delhi, where she worked as a maid.
The woman further claimed that she was attempting to return to Pakistan via Bangladesh and following the instructions of an agent, reached Sabroom via Kanchenjunga Express from Siliguri (West Bengal).
Citing the interrogation report, the police officer said, “After lengthy interrogation, the woman admitted that her initial statements were false. She revealed her real identity as Louise Nighat Akhtar Bhano, wife of Mohammad Golaf Faraz of Village Yanganabad, Chak No. 371, District Sheikhupura, Pakistan.”
The woman confessed that she had traveled to Nepal with a passport for the purpose of drug smuggling 12 years ago and in 2014, she was arrested by Nepal Police with one kilogram of brown sugar and sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment. She was kept in a Kathmandu jail and escaped from custody during the unrest in Nepal last month.
Last month, she entered India and learned from her associates and agent that she could cross the India-Bangladesh border via West Bengal or Tripura and return to Pakistan via Bangladesh, the police officer said.
“When the woman failed to enter Bangladesh through the West Bengal border, she traveled to Tripura on the advice of an agent and reached Sabroom by Kanchenjunga Express with the intention of crossing the border,” the officer said.
–IANS
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