Wanted for cheating, Punjab woman arrested while fleeing to Nepal

Security forces arrested a woman, apparently wanted by Punjab police in connection with several cheating cases, while she was trying to cross the border into Nepal from Raxaul town in Bihar’s East Champaran district, police said on Friday evening.

Shalika Badhwa detained by immigration authorities in Raxaul, Bihar, on Saturday. (Santosh Kumar/ HT)

Raxaul Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Dhirendra Kumar said the woman, Shalika Badhwa, was arrested near Bharat Nepal Maitri Pul by immigration officials. “She was handed over to Haraiya police in Raxaul after which she was sent to judicial custody. Punjab police have been informed about her arrest. She is likely to claim custody soon,” SDPO Kumar said.

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An immigration official said the arrest was made after the department was alerted about her movements in the border area. Shalika Badhwa, a resident of Main Bazaar in Abohar near Fazilka, was wanted in connection with a case (number 127/2023) registered in Chandigarh on December 6 last year, besides several cases.

Haraiya police superintendent Anjan Kumar said, “During her interrogation, it was found that she was wanted in many fraud cases registered in different places of Punjab.”

Badhwa had planned to escape to Dubai via Nepal, a police officer privy to the interrogation said.