A married Pakistani woman was arrested after fleeing to India to see a lover she met playing PUBG
- A Pakistani woman took her four kids and made a dangerous trek to India to be with her lover she met through the popular video game PUBG
- The woman was arrested on charges of illegally entering India, and the man for sheltering her
A woman made a risky trek into India with her four children to be with a man she met through a popular battle royale game known as PUBG.
In about a month, their cross-border love briefly put them in jail, The New York Times reported.
The woman, Seema Ghulam Haider, 27, met Sachin Meena, 22, on PUBG: Battlegrounds in 2019.
PUBG is a multiplayer shooter that became an instant hit when the game was launched in 2017, making US$400 million within six months of its release. India tried banning PUBG a few times, believing that students were losing interest in their studies because the game was too addicting.
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According to the Hindustan Times, a Delhi-based newspaper, Haider said the two would play “for hours on end … and never stopped talking.” They soon expressed their love for one another, but their romance came with complications.