Photo of women arrested from Thane on accounts of ‘fake documents’ (Picture credit: PTI)

THANE: The Vartak Nagar police have arrested a 23-year-old woman who traveled to Pakistan to marry her online friend. The woman was placed under arrest on Thursday and presented in court, which remanded her to police custody for two days.
According to the FIR, the woman allegedly changed her name and procured counterfeit Aadhaar and PAN cards. She also falsified new birth certificates for her daughters through a shop in Thane.Using these fake documents, she applied for a passport and successfully completed the police verification process.
A senior police officer confirmed the arrest and stated that custodial interrogation was deemed necessary after questioning her for several days. The woman and her mother had denied any wrongdoing on Wednesday.
It is learnt that the man who helped in procuring the fake IDs is also on the radar of police for helping her forging the documents.
It was also revealed that the woman informed the Pakistan high commission before coming to Thane that her mother had fallen ill and that she needed to see her.
The woman, originally from Uttar Pradesh, moved to Thane to live with her mother along with her two daughters. She befriended a man from Pakistan on Instagram and eventually fell in love with him. The couple decided to get married and live together in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where her boyfriend resides and worked in Rawalpindi.