Indian woman Sarabjit Kaur, who went to Pakistan and converted to Islam, now wants to return to India alleging torture. After making an audio plea, he has been arrested and authorities are preparing to deport him.
New Delhi: An audio clip of Sarabjit Kaur, the Indian woman who converted to Islam after visiting a Sikh pilgrimage site in Pakistan last November and married a Pakistani man, has surfaced in which she is pleading to return to India. An audio is going viral on social media, in which Kaur is talking to her ex-husband in India saying that she is being tortured in Pakistan and should be brought back home. However, officials have not yet confirmed its authenticity.
In the clip, the woman can be heard saying that the situation in Pakistan is not good and the man she married and his family are harassing her. She wants to return to India and has assured her husband that she will not create any trouble when she returns. The woman says, ‘I am being harassed here. I can’t live without my children. I am a Sardarani, yet I have to beg for money. The woman also alleged that she had not gone to Pakistan posing as a spy, but had gone to get her objectionable pictures deleted. Kaur said that Nasir Hussain had objectionable pictures of her and she was just trying to get them destroyed.
After Kaur and Hussain’s marriage in Pakistan, they filed a petition in the Lahore High Court complaining that the police raided their house in Farooqabad, Sheikhupura and pressured them to call off the marriage. Following this, Justice Farooq Haider of the Lahore High Court ordered the police to stop harassing the couple. However, Punjab government sources said on Wednesday that Kaur has been arrested and sent to a government shelter home in Lahore. He said since Kaur’s husband is facing a case in police custody, the authorities have decided to deport him from the country. Authorities had earlier also tried to deport Kaur, but the attempt failed due to the closure of the Wagah-Attari border. Earlier, in a video clip, Kaur had said that she had approached the embassy in Islamabad to get her visa extended and applied for Pakistani citizenship. Kaur then said that she was divorced and wanted to marry Hussain, that is why she had come here. Before the Nikah ceremony, Kaur was given the name Noor.
The 48-year-old Sikh woman, a resident of Amanipur village in Punjab’s Kapurthala district, had entered Pakistan from India through the Wagah border in November last year to take part in celebrations related to the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak. The pilgrims accompanying her returned home a few days later, but Kaur went missing. A senior Lahore police officer later said that on November 4, a day after reaching Pakistan, Kaur married Nasir Hussain of Sheikhpura district, about 50 kilometers away.