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The 48-year-old woman, identified as Sarabjeet Kaur, was among around 2,000 Indian Sikh pilgrims who travelled to Pakistan via the Wagah border.
Indian Sikh pilgrim Sarabjeet Kaur, who went missing during her visit to Pakistan, has reportedly married a Pakistani man in Lahore. (Image: X)
An Indian Sikh woman, who had entered the Punjab province of Pakistan with a pilgrims’ group earlier this month, has converted to Islam and married a local Muslim man whom she had met on social media.
Meanwhile, her disappearance is being investigated in India’s Punjab, police from Kapurthala district said. Kaur is a native of Amanipur village in Kapurthala district of India.
The 48-year-old woman, identified as Sarabjeet Kaur, was among around 2,000 Indian Sikh pilgrims who travelled to Pakistan via the Wagah border to attend the festivities related to the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev.
While everyone returned home on November 13, Kaur was found missing.
“Kaur contracted marriage with Nasir Hussain of Sheikhupura district, some 50 kms from Lahore, a day after her arrival in Pakistan on November 4 and declared that she converted to Islam and married out of free will,” a senior police officer in Lahore was quoted by news agency PTI.
After getting married, the couple gone into hiding and police are searching for them.
When asked whether the intelligence agencies took the couple into custody, he declined to comment but repeated that the police are trying to find the duo.
A copy of her Nikah nama (marriage certificate), shows Kaur (whose Muslim name now is Noor) married Nasir Hussain, a resident of Sheikhupura’s Farooqabad area.
Kaur, in a video circulating online, said she “loves” Nasir Hussain and that she knew him for nine years through social media. She said she is a divorcee and wanted to marry him.
In the court of judicial magistrate Muhammad Khalid Mahmood Warriach, Kaur said no one has abducted her and she is “happily married to Nasir Hussain,” the video showed.
According to the police, she had a passport issued to her by the Regional Passport Office in India’s Jalandhar in January 2024.
Kapurthala Assistant Superintendent of Police Dheerendra Verma said that her disappearance is under probe but said there is no information about her conversion.
Another police officer had earlier said Kaur has three cases of cheating and fraud registered against her – two at Kapurthala City Police Station and one at Kot Fatta Police Station in Bathinda.
(With agency inputs)
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