A Pakistani woman and an Indian man who met and fell in love on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds have been arrested in India and face serious jail time. The New York Times reports that the two were arrested just two months after they began living secretly in the Greater Noida city, she on charges of illegal entry and he on charges of harboring a fugitive.

Seema Ghulam Haider and Sachin Meena first met at PUBG in 2019 after Haider's husband moved to Saudi Arabia for work. The two eventually began talking through social media and phone calls. 'Sachin would talk to someone late at night, until about 2:00 or 3:00 a.m.,' his uncle, Barbar Meena, told The Times. 'Then he fell in love with a Pakistani woman and confessed that he intended to marry her.'

The family did not approve of his connection to "an enemy woman," but they still met in Nepal in March; after spending a week together, they returned home, only to meet again in Nepal in May; for their second meeting, Haider brought her four children, and instead of returning to their respective home countries They all headed for India to The couple and their children lived together for a short time in a town not far from the Indian capital, New Delhi.

Ironically, it seems that they were arrested because of their efforts to make everything legal. According to a report in the Times of India, they went to a local lawyer to discuss her residency status and planned marriage, but rather than help them resolve the issue, the lawyer tipped them off to the police when he learned that Haider was from Pakistan.

"I was surprised when I learned that she and her children [three daughters and a son] had Pakistani passports," the lawyer said. 'She had inquired about the procedure for getting married in India. She said she wanted to marry Sachin."

The lawyer had one of his associates follow them after they left the office. When he learned that they were living in a house in Rabpura, he called the police." [This reflects the relationship between India, a predominantly Hindu country, and Pakistan, a predominantly Muslim country. Tensions between the two nuclear-armed nations remain high, as the two countries have fought several wars since the creation of Pakistan in 1947. India has also increased its violent and brutal repression of Muslims in recent years.

Meena is a Hindu, which is the majority in India, while Haider is a Muslim, which may explain at least part of the Indian authorities' surprisingly heavy-handed response to the presence of a Pakistani Muslim woman and her four children: According to a report in the Times of India, local police have enlisted the help of the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad in the arrest of Haider and Meena, and the country's intelligence agencies are also conducting the investigation.

But their love is genuine and does not seem to be motivated by evil in the least. Meena earns only about $100 a month from her job at a local store (now apparently her former job), and according to police, she did not lie about her economic or social status or make promises she could not keep in order to attract Haider to this country.

"She knew he was not very strong financially," said Sudhir Kumar of the Rabpura police. 'She wasn't impressed by his work; she was impressed by his PUBG skills.'

The BBC reports that Haider and Meena were both sentenced to 14 days in prison and are being investigated. Haider's husband says she was abused before leaving for Saudi Arabia and wants her and the children returned to Pakistan, but the new couple is appealing to the Indian government to allow them to marry.