Jaipur: Pakistani woman charged with fraud for procuring fake voter ID

Jaipur | Thursday | 25th November, 2021

Summary:

Jaipur, Nov 25 (PTI) A Pakistani woman living here allegedly on dubious documents for past several years has been booked on charges of fraud, police said on Thursday.

A case has been registered against Meena Kumari at Ramganj police station here under sections of Foreigners Act and various sections of the Indian Penal Code, they said.

According to the police, the woman, who had arrived in India along with her parents and siblings 38 years back, has been booked for fraudulently obtaining voter ID and other Indian documents and staying without visa.

The accused had arrived in India in 1983 via Atari border when she was three years old.

In 2002, she married one Mohammad Sharif Qureshi, a resident of Sanjay Bazar in Jaipur, according to the FIR.

At some point, she changed her name to Parveen Bano and applied for Indian citizenship.