Ballia: Police have visited the village of the husband of the woman who recently travelled to a remote corner of Pakistan to meet a Facebook friend, and conducted a "preliminary investigation", officials said here on Tuesday.
Police officials visited Kharagpura village of the district on Monday, a day before Anju, a mother of two children, converted to Islam and married her friend Nasrullah in a court in the neighbouring country's Upper Dir district.
Circle Officer (CO) of Rasda in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, Mohammad Faheem Qureshi on Tuesday said, "Police went to Kharagpura village on Monday and conducted a preliminary investigation regarding Arvind (the woman's Indian husband). Anju and Arvind had visited the village only once, in 2014, to attend the marriage of her brother-in-law Anoop."
This was before a senior officer of the Moharrar City police station in Pakistan's Upper Dir district told PTI that Nasrullah and Anju's marriage was solemnised and proper a Nikah was performed after the woman converted to Islam. Another senior police official confirmed the marriage and said Anju has been named Fatima after her conversion to Islam. (PTI)
