Meerut (UP), February 16 A woman was arrested on Monday, and her daughter was booked for allegedly spying for Pakistan's ISI and residing in the country without valid citizenship, according to the Meerut police.
According to the police, Ruksana, a resident of the Delhi Gate police station area, submitted a complaint to the Senior Superintendent of Police and the Additional Superintendent of Police (City), alleging that Saba Farhat, who lives in Nadir Ali Building in Jali Kothi, had travelled to Pakistan in 1988 and married a Pakistani national, Farhat Masood, there.
The complaint stated that her daughter, Aiman Farhat, who was born in Pakistan in 1993, was brought to India on a Pakistani passport and later enrolled in a school here, but was never granted Indian citizenship, they said.
The complainant further alleged that the woman had prepared forged documents to obtain a passport for her daughter and procured two separate identity documents in her own name.
It was also alleged that both women were spying for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and collecting confidential information, the police said.
The police arrested Saba Farhat on Monday, and she will be produced in court on Tuesday, officials said.
SSP Avinash Pandey said that acting on a complaint, an investigation by the Additional Superintendent of Police (City) found forged documents in their possession, after which an FIR was registered on Saturday against the women at the Delhi Gate police station under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.