Love-stricken woman headed to Pak nabbed

Ravi Dhaliwal

Tribune News Service

Dera Baba Nanak, April 8

The botched love story of a Odisha-based woman has become the talk of the town with the Batala police earning kudos for handing over the girl to her family along with Rs 25-lakh jewellery she was carrying with her.

A few months ago, Himandari Tanya Tripathi (25), married to a businessman and the mother of a five-year-old daughter, got in touch with Islamabad-based youth Mohammad Wasim through a social media site. Cupid struck following which the boy asked her to come to the Kartarpur gurdwara in Pakistan using the corridor at Dera Baba Nanak.

On Tuesday, she took a bus from Delhi for Jalandhar. She arrived in Amritsar at night.

Early on Wednesday, she boarded a bus to Dera Baba Nanak and landed at the corridor which, in any case, has been lying inoperative since March last year. Once there, she asked a man how she could reach Pakistan using the corridor. The man, who turned out to be a cop in civvies, intimated Batala SSP Rachpal Singh who asked DSP Kanwalpreet Singh and SHO Anil Pawar to question her. The cops initially did not believe her love story. Later, when she spoke to Wasim in their presence, they realised that she was telling the truth.

Pawar got in touch with the girl’s father and husband who reached here last night and took her back.