Kashif Shamsuddin, his wife Kirhon Ghulam Ali and Sameera, a woman married to an Indian man, were arrested in 2017.
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A couple from Pakistan, convicted in 2017 of illegally entering India and holding fake documents while living in Bengaluru, was deported from the country on Saturday. As per sources in Bengaluru police and the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO), Kashif Shamsuddin and his wife Kirhon Ghulam Ali were handed over to Pakistani authorities at the Wagah-Attari border on Sunday. “They have been deported on Saturday,” confirmed a senior officer from Bengaluru police. The couple hailed from Chakragot in Karachi and were arrested in May 2017 in Bengaluru along with Sameera, another Pakistani national, who had entered India with them. Sameera is currently in jail in Bengaluru. She is married to Mohammad Shihab, a native of Kerala who was working in Qatar. The couple got married against the family’s wishes some time in 2015 and has a child. Police officials stated that the trio was residing in India with fake documents, including Aadhaar cards. Officials are yet to decide on deporting Sameera and her child. Since the mother is an illegal immigrant, the child will not be given Indian citizenship. According to the Citizenship Act of 1955, “A person born in India on or after 3 December 2004 is considered citizen of India by birth, if both the parents are citizens of India or one of whose parents is a citizen of India and the other is not an illegal migrant at the time of his birth”. As per Quint, Shihab brought Sameera into the country via Nepal after her father placed her on house arrest. The three nationals from Pakistan first came to Nepal from Qatar via Muscat in Oman. They reached Patna in Bihar after crossing the Indo-Nepal border from Kathmandu. Sameera was arrested along with Kashif and Kirhon in May 2017 from Bengaluru’s Kumaraswamy Layout. They were charged with illegally entering the country and creating fake identity cards. They were sentenced to 21 months and 12 months in prison for the two cases respectively.
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