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PUBG Love Story: Bangladeshi Man Crosses Border, Makes India Home for Love, Now Arrested.
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News18•03-10-2026, 23:51
PUBG Love Story: Bangladeshi Man Crosses Border, Makes India Home for Love, Now Arrested.
- •A Lucknow woman, Farheen Naaz, and Bangladeshi man, Sajjad Hussain, fell in love playing PUBG, leading Sajjad to illegally enter India.
- •Sajjad Hussain arrived in India via Saudi Arabia on August 18, 2023, and court-married Farheen in Ayodhya on August 28, 2023.
- •To establish permanent residency, Sajjad fraudulently obtained Indian documents like Aadhaar, PAN, and Voter ID with the help of Mohammad Talha.
- •Police investigation revealed Sajjad's domicile certificate was issued before his arrival in India, and his visa had expired.
- •Police arrested Sajjad and Mohammad Talha, who facilitated the fake documents, recovering several important items from them.
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Sajjad Hussain and Farheen Naaz met in 2018 while playing the online game PUBG, where Sajjad was using the ID 'Juhi Ibrahim' before their conversations blossomed into deep love.
Sajjad contacted Mohammad Talha, a local public service center operator in Lucknow, paying him 2,000 rupees in cash and 900 rupees online to forge initial domicile and birth certificates, which were then used to acquire fake Aadhaar, PAN, and voter ID cards.
The Bazar Khala police recovered two Bangladeshi passports, an Indian PAN card, a voter ID, an Aadhaar card, and two mobile phones from Sajjad Hussain, alongside seizing a computer and CPU during a raid on Talha's public service center.
