LAHORE: A young Indian woman who arrived here from the United Arab Emirates to meet her Pakistani ‘husband’ was deported for travelling on fake documents.

The immigration staff at the Lahore airport detained the woman who flew in from Sharjah on Thursday for using the passport of someone named Nimra. In her early 20s, the woman during interrogation confessed to having ‘stolen identity’.

“I’m an Indian national,” she was quoted by the officials as saying. She said her name was Nageeta Ramesh.The woman claimed to have embraced Islam and adopted Eman as her new name to marry Azhar, a Multan-based jeweller whom she had reportedly met in Sharjah sometime ago.

She claimed that her nikah with Azhar had been solemnised on phone after he returned to Pakistan. “Since I was desperate to reach Pakistan to get united with my husband I got the passport of my Pakistani friend Nimra,” she said.

“I’ve come here to meet my husband, escaping my family in Sharjah because they wanted me to marry a man of their choice.”

The woman’s family belongs to the Indian state of Gujarat and moved to Sharjah a few years ago. Officials rejected her request to go with Mr Azhar, who had come from Multan to receive her, and the FIA deported her back to Sharjah on Friday.

Times of India reported that the woman had fallen in love with Mr Azhar after meeting him on a social networking website. Authorities also interrogated Mr Azhar before allowing him to leave the airport.