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Pakistani family held for overstaying in Hyderabad

The Hyderabad city police have arrested a 10-member Pakistani family for overstaying in India.

Nissar Ahmed, his wife Fatima and their eight children were picked up from Noorkhan Bazar locality in the old city on Sunday night. They were remanded to judicial custody at Chanchalguda jail after interrogation by the special branch and the counter-intelligence wing of the police.

Nissar Ahmed entered India on June 26 through Attari rail check-post with a 60-day visa to stay at Mumbra in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said.

Nissar Ahmed fled to Hyderabad along with his family when the validity of the visas expired on August 24 and the Mumbai police came looking for him, they added.

He kept changing residence and lived in four different localities -Moghulpura, Chaderghat, Chanchalguda and Noorkhan Bazar - to evade the Hyderabad police, they said.

He had purchased three autorickshaws and gave them on hire to make his living with the help of his brother-in-law Asghar Ali, police said.

Recently, differences cropped up between the two following which Asghar Ali tipped off the police.

Nissar Ahmed told the police that he had brought about 80 tolas of gold, of which he sold 70 to meet his financial requirements, police said.

Police said that Nissar Ahmed, a resident of Karachi, was wanted in his country for defrauding a bank. Employed as a clerk in Habib Bank between 1982-91, he managed to get a loan for a man with fake documents.

After serving a three-year jail term in Pakistan in this connection, he joined the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) and ran an extortion racket.

Meanwhile, he and two others secured a Rs 1.4 million loan from a Pakistani bank with the help of fake documents following which fresh cases were filed by the Karachi police against him for cheating and extortion.

Nissar Ahmed and his family came to India to evade arrest.

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