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Pakistani national Seema Haider has made waves since crossing over to India with her four children earlier this year. While the Ministry of External Affairs continues to investigate the matter, Haider has reportedly secured an entry into both Bollywood and Indian politics. Republican Party of India (Athawale) leader Masoom Kishor had broached the possibility of Haider joining the BJP ally earlier this week.
“Our party has no relations with Seema Haider. She has come from Pakistan to India…There is no question of including her in our party…If after all, we have to give her a ticket then it will be a ticket from India to Pakistan…” Union Minister Ramdas Athawale however clarified.
Meanwhile the Sashastra Seema Bal has suspended an inspector and a jawan for alleged dereliction of duty in checking the bus in which Haider had entered India. The SSB guards the India-Nepal border and the officials in question had been responsible for checking the passenger vehicle on May 13 in the border district of Siddharth Nagar in Uttar Pradesh.
Sources told news agency PTI that the duo had been suspended pending a full inquiry. A full court of inquiry procedure will begin against them and all the aspects of the incident that were not covered during the preliminary investigation will be probed now, besides the role of other personnel on duty that day.
(With inputs from agencies)
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Updated: 04 Aug 2023, 07:57 PM IST
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