Two PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) gamers may face a number of years in jail for illegally crossing some South Asian borders to stay collectively, based on a current New York Occasions report.
Seema Ghulam Haider is a 27-year-old Pakistani Muslim with 4 youngsters. She met Sachin Meena, a 22-year-old Hindu man, within the battle royale shooter PUBG in 2019. The battlefield-crossed lovers grew nearer as they fought for the digital win, ultimately shifting their conversations to Instagram, WhatsApp, and different social media apps in 2020, based on The New York Occasions. Haider was married on the time and residing together with her husband in Karachi, however he moved to Saudi Arabia for a job—and by no means got here again. This was the sphere the place Haider and Meena’s love for one another blossomed.
After about 4 years of being in a dedicated long-distance relationship, the pair met up for the primary time this previous March in Nepal. They stayed at a lodge for every week, and promised to reunite quickly. After looking out on YouTube for a technique to slip by means of the porous border between Nepal and India, Haider and her 4 youngsters made the perilous journey. Issues labored out superb for the PUBG lovers for roughly two months as they lived in secret in a city exterior New Delhi. Haider even bought her dwelling to fund the journey. However then they bumped into Indian authorities, and issues rapidly went south.
As The New York Occasions studies, the household was arrested this week. Haider and her youngsters had been charged with illegally coming into India, whereas Meena and his dad had been charged with conspiring to shelter an “enemy.” Haider is a Pakistani Muslim lady and Meena is a Hindu man, and the Indian authorities condemns all interfaith relationships between these two religions.
“I don’t need to return,” Haider informed reporters as she was taken away by the police, based on The New York Occasions. “I need to marry Sachin. I really like him rather a lot. I left every thing for him.”
Meena equally expressed his love for Haider. “We simply need the federal government to allow us to marry and construct a household,” he stated.
Meena wasn’t some playboy flush with money. The New York Occasions studies that he labored a modest job at a nook retailer, making roughly $100 a month. That didn’t matter to Haider, although, who needed to be with Meena anyway.
“She knew that he was not financially very sturdy,” the top of the Rabupura, India police station Sudhir Kumar informed The New York Occasions. “She was not impressed by his work, however by his PUBG expertise.”
The couple faces a possible sentence of a number of years in jail, after which Haider and her youngsters will probably get deported. This complete factor is heartbreaking.
