How Hyd police caught Pakistan man illegally staying in Kishanbagh

Hyderabad: The Commissioner’s Task Force in Hyderabad apprehended a 24-year-old man from Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday for unlawfully entering the country and living in the city for the past 10 months. The officials confiscated his Pakistani passport and other documents.

According to deputy commissioner of police (South Zone) P Sai Chaitanya, Faiz Mohammed, married Hyderabad native Neha Fathima while working in Sharjah. The police said that Faiz was working at a garment company’s sewing section in Sharjah from 2018, until a year later, he met Neha, who worked as a maid there. He assisted her in finding work as a tailor with another firm. They married soon after and had a three-year-old kid.

Neha returned to Hyderabad in November last year owing to health issues and did not return to Sharjah. According to the authorities, Faiz came to India to live with his wife and child. Faiz’s in-laws helped him enter India illegally by crossing the Nepal border in November 2022. He had travelled from Pakistan to Nepal on a visiting visa. He has been residing in the city with his wife and three-year-old child ever since.

“Zubair Shaik and Afzal Begum received him at the Nepal border by managing the border officials and brought him home to NM Guda in Kishanbagh, where he was staying illegally,” the DCP said.

In-laws tried to procure Aadhaar from Faiz

The authorities are now on the lookout for Faiz’s in-laws, Zubair Shaik and Afzal Begum who are absconding.

“The in-laws took Faiz to the Madhapur Aadhaar office and tried to enrol him using Mohammed Ghouse’s birth certificate,” the DCP stated. The accused has been charged with seeking Indian nationality for a foreign national by registering for an Aadhaar card using Fatima’s brother Ghouse's credentials, which is illegal. The officials were tipped off about Faiz's identity when he went to get the Aadhaar made.

The sleuths from the Commissioner’s Task Force apprehended Faiz and turned him over to the Bahadurpura police. Officers are looking into Faiz’s background and his activities and movements in the city in the past year.