Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India]: A Bangladeshi woman has accused a man from Noida in Uttar Pradesh of marrying her when he was working in Dhaka and of fleeing the country after they had a child together, police said.
Police said on Monday that the Bangladesh woman who arrived in India with a tourist visa has also brought a one-year-old child with her.
The woman, a native of the Bangladesh capital Dhaka in her complaint to the police alleged that in April 2021 one Saurabhkant Tiwari, a resident of Surajpur, had married her in Bangladesh,” Rajiv Dixit, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Central Noida, said.
The woman alleged that the man was working in a private energy company in Bangladesh from January 2017 to December 2021 and was already married to an Indian woman with whom he has two children.
“The passport, visa and citizenship card of the woman her one-year-old child have been submitted by her,” the senior police officer added.
Prima facie, the Bangladesh woman and Saurabh married each other there. Still, an investigation is underway and further steps will be taken based on it, police said further.
This incident has come to the fore a month-and-a-half after a Pakistan national Seema Haider, who had illegally entered India through Nepal to live with her Indian partner, Sachin Meena, who stays in Greater Noida, was arrested by the Noida police.
Earlier, reacting to the illegal cross-over of Seema Haider into India, the Ministry of External Affairs had said the matter was ‘under investigation’, adding that she was presented before the court and was granted bail.
