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New Delhi: Gujarat has seen a unique case of illegal immigration, reported from Bharuch district. Here, a woman reportedly faked a marriage with a UK-based man in order to gain easy entry into the UK. Once she reached the country, she immediately 'filed for divorce'. The entire act however was caught after a dispute with her 'husband' in the UK.
The police said that a Bharuch police received a complaint from a man against his 'wife', after her family refused to pay him Rs 3.5 lakh. The police said that the man Rizwan Meda, who hails from Valan village in Bharuch district, approached them through a power of authority given to a friend, Minhaz Yaqub Ughrardhar. Meda is currently residing in the UK.
Meda reportedly filed the complaint after the woman's family failed to pay him Rs 3.5 lakh, which they had promised, if he 'marries' their daughter. This was to be a fake marriage, just to help the woman to move to the UK on a dependent visa. In lieu of this, the woman's family had promised to pay him.
As police started investigations, they found that Veda and the co-accused (the woman) had conspired to create fake marriage documents (nikahnamas) and also a fake decree of divorce to get illegal travel and immigration documents for the woman.
The woman was identified as Taslimabanu Karbhari. She reportedly reached the UK on forged documents obtained after her 'marriage' to Meda. Once there however, there was a dispute between them regarding the money to be paid in lieu of the 'help' Meda had extended to her and her family. In the meanwhile, the man also decided to get married and to bring his real wife to the UK, he needed a divorce from Karbhari.
In order to free Meda from the fake marriage, Karbhari's brother Faizal, approached a lawyer, Sajid Kothiya of Kanthariya, to create a fake divorce decree of the Bharuch court. This would help Karbhari not be a dependent of Meda and then he would be able to marry another woman.
Using the fake document, Meda and Karbhari finalized their 'divorce' in the UK. The woman had been living with her brother Faizal after reaching the UK. He is also a resident of the country.
The police have now filed cases against Meda, Taslimabanu, Rizwan and Kothiya. They have been booked under Sections 467 (forgery of a valuable security), 468 (committing forgery for the purpose of cheating), and 471 (fraudulently or dishonestly using a forged document as genuine), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 177 (furnishing false information) and 114 (crime committed in presence of abettor) of the Indian Penal Code.
The police have started the process to get the accused extradited from the UK. They hope that all of them would soon be in India. Faizal has managed to escape to Canada. The Gujarat police are in constant touch with the British High Commission and said that they would arrest the accused as soon as they land in India.
