EXCLUSIVE| If Akshay can get India citizenship after so long, why can’t Seema Haider?: Lawyer

| Updated: 16 August, 2023 7:42 pm IST
Seema Haider's lawyer AP Singh speaks to The New Indian in Delhi.

GAUTAM BUDDHA NAGAR (UTTAR PRADESH): Pakistan national Seema Haider is now pinning her hopes to acquire Indian citizenship on actor Akshay Kumar after the Khiladi hero took to Twitter to announce he has given up his Canadian passport to become a desi.

Haider’s lawyer A P Singh told The New Indian that the Karachi citizen, who became a bahu of Bharat amid a raft of controversies surrounding her discreet entry and marriage to Greater Noida local Sachin Meena, would continue to press for an Indian passport even as an FIR is pending against her.

“It took more than several decades for Akshay Kumar to get an Indian passport, so why should be in a hurry? We will apply for it and it may take time,” Singh quipped.

 

Haider, had earlier expressed her desire to get an Indian passport, publically.

“If I get a citizenship, I will behave like a good person. I won’t betray,” Haider had told media.

Seema Haider with her lover Sachin Meena at their home in Greater Noida (TNI File Photo By Sumit Kumar)

The FIR by the UP Police against Haider, however charge her of a criminal conspiracy.  It had also invoked sections of foreign act under IPC 14 against the 30-year-old Pakistani woman who was earlier married and has four kids.

Haider has brought along all four kids, who like her, have now embraced Hinduism.

Kumar, whose recent film Oh My God-2, hit the theatres last Friday, had disclosed about his Indian citizenship in a social media post shared by him on micro-blogging site Twitter (now rechristened as X).

The 55-year-old actor had been under attack by several quarters over the last decade after his clip, making admiration for Canada ahead of India, had gone viral.  In the clip, Kumar was heard, saying “This is my home. Toronto is my home. After I retire from this industry, I will settle in Canada”

Under fire for this admission, Kumar had to explain his statement multiple times, eventually leading up to him foregoing his Canadian passport.

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