Betrayals, tragedies and heartbreaks sum up Rubeena's journey from Pakistan to India in 2012
This real-life Indo-Pak drama has all the ingredients of a Bollywood potboiler! Abandoned by her husband, disowned by her country and jailed by India, 27-year-old Rubeena has left a jail in Jammu for Pakistan with her five-year-old daughter after Islamabad finally accepted the duo as that country's nationals.
"The Pakistani government has finally accepted Rubeena as its national. Justice Mohommad Yaqoob Mir of the J&K High Court ordered that Rubeena be deported within four weeks. On Monday, she left the jail for Wagah border for her onward journey to Pakistan," a beaming Mir Shafaqat Hussain, the counsel for Rubeena, told DNA.
Lodged in jail since November 2012, Rubeena of Musa Colony, Hyderabad, in Pakistan was arrested by the J&K police along with her then four-month-old daughter in Jammu's Kanachak area and booked under Section 14 of the Foreigners' Act.
Betrayals, tragedies and heartbreaks sum up Rubeena's journey from Pakistan to India in 2012. She was abandoned by her husband, who allegedly brought her to Delhi on the pretext of treatment for asthma.
Divested of her travel documents, the 22-year-old mother travelled to Wagah hoping to cross into Pakistan. After failing to cross over, she was directed to go to Jammu, where she was arrested and sent to prison.
In fact Mir turned out to be the real life Bajrangi Baijan when he met Rubeena in Kot Bhalwal jail. It was a chance meeting of Mir with Rubeena in the jail that prompted the former to file the case in the J&K high court.
"I had a chance meeting with her in the jail. She broke down and narrated her story. I assured her that I will fight her case in the court," he said
What came as a rude shock was when Pakistan refused to confirm Rubeena's nationality? This followed the meeting of the officials of Pakistan high commission with Rubeena at central jail Amritsar on February 26 2013.
In fact Justice Hasnain Masoodi of the high court had asked the authorities to deport Rubeena and her daughter to Pakistan within four weeks in May 2014. However she was not deported because of Pakistan's non-conformation of her nationality.
Mir later filed a contempt petition with all the details of her family members, relatives, teachers and neighbours as the address proof of Rubeena.
"There should be no difficulty for the state respondents to ascertain the full particulars with reference to nationality of the petitioner," said Justice Ali Mohammad Magray of J&K high court while disposing of the contempt petition.
Mir said it was a five year long legal and diplomatic battle that finally yielded fruit after Rubeena and her daughter were sent back to Wagah for deportation to their own country.
"She told me that her father had married twice. And she was born to his second wife who was from Malaysia. Later her brother married her in early age and her husband brought her to Delhi just to abandon her. I collected details of her relatives which helped in the case and finally she was accepted by Pakistan," said Mir.
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