Overview
- Police said Saba Masood, also known as Naji or Nazia, was arrested on Monday and will be produced in court on Tuesday, while her daughter was named in the case.
- An FIR was registered on February 14 at Delhi Gate police station invoking Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 318(4), 336(3), 338, 340(2), 351(2) and 352 for cheating, forgery, using forged documents and criminal intimidation.
- According to the complaint and police, Saba and her daughter are Pakistani nationals who lived in Meerut for decades without Indian citizenship, with the daughter born in Pakistan in May 1993 and brought to India on a Pakistani passport.
- Investigators allege Indian identity papers were obtained using fabricated records, including Aadhaar, voter IDs—two entries for Saba under different names—and passports, with counsel also alleging a forged hospital birth certificate.
- Claims in the complaint that the two gathered information by visiting Army and government offices and that a relative had ISI links remain allegations under investigation.