Mandi Bahauddin (Pakistan News dot com dot pk) An Indian youngster who came to Pakistan illegally allegedly in love with a girl has refused to return in his native country.
According to local media reports, Badal Babu, who is imprisoned in Mandi Bahauddin jail, gave a statement in the court that he wants to stay in Pakistan and going back to India would be equivalent to his death, he has converted to Islam and if he is sent back to India, he will be killed.
The accused also narrated an incident in the court that a boy from his village, who had converted to Islam, was killed and his body was found in pieces. He said that he cannot return to India because he has changed his religion and his life is in danger.
Badal Babu, who allegedly came to Pakistan illegally to love and marry a Pakistani girl and is currently on judicial remand in Mandi Bahauddin jail, was produced in a local court yesterday.
Badal Babu’s lawyer Fayyaz Rame said that before the next hearing of Badal Babu’s case, the DPO has been summoned to confirm the filing of the charge sheet.
According to the lawyer, Badal Babu was brought in a separate vehicle from other prisoners and special arrangements have been made for his safety. Badal Babu’s lawyer said that he will meet him in the jail after two days and will discuss all aspects of the case in detail.
On other hand, bbc reports suggest that No one knows when and by what route Badal, who had gone from his village of Nigla Khatkari in India to Delhi after asking permission from his family to work as a tailor, reached a city in Pakistan that does not share a border with India.
20-year-old Badal Babu probably left India for Pakistan in such a hurry that he did not even carry any identity document with him, and his distraught mother is showing this document to the local media and appealing to the Indian government to return him.
Perhaps to appease his mother, he called her from a Pakistani number and reassured her that he had actually reached Dubai.
Badal, who is now in custody in Pakistan, has been booked by the Mandi Bahauddin police. According to the FIR, the police ‘learned from an informant that an Indian citizen was present near the Rangwali factory in the Mong area and was residing illegally.’
According to the FIR, when the police reached the spot and ‘interrogated the boy, it was found that he did not have a residence permit or visa to stay in Pakistan.’ SHO Anjum Shahzad told the BBC that ‘Badal had befriended a local girl here through Facebook and came to meet her.’
According to the SHO, the girl ‘belongs to a religious family.’