CRPF Jawan Married to Pakistani: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has dismissed a jawaan for hiding his marriage to a woman from Pakistan. The CRPF said the jawaan’s actions were harmful to the country’s security. The jawaan, Munir Ahmed, was serving with the 41st Battalion of the CRPF. According to a statement from the CRPF, Munir married Minal Khan a Pakistani national but did not inform his superiors about it. He also kept her in India after her visa expired. This is against the rules and puts national security at risk, the CRPF added.
Munir’s actions were discovered after he had been moved from the sensitive Jammu and Kashmir region to Bhopal. He had asked permission in 2023 to marry Minal, who is from Sialkot, Pakistan. But before getting approval, he married her on May 24, 2024. The marriage was done online, with clerics in both India and Pakistan taking part in a video call to officiate the ceremony.
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The situation became even more complicated after Minal Khan tried to stay in India longer. She had entered the country on a visitor’s visa, which allowed her to stay for a short time. She had applied for a long-term visa to live with her husband, reports Hindustan Times. The process was going well, and Minal even had an interview for the visa.
Recommendations were sent to the Ministry of Home Affairs to approve her request. But everything changed after the deadly terror attack in Pahalgam, which killed 26 people. Following the attack, India decided to revoke visas for Pakistani nationals, and Minal was sent back from Jammu. The news about her deportation came just days before she was about to leave for Pakistan.
Minal’s situation changed when the Jammu and Kashmir High Court stepped in. On April 30, 2025, the court gave her temporary relief and stopped her deportation. Minal had already started her journey to the Attari border when she received the court’s decision from her lawyer.
“Munir Ahmed, who is a CRPF constable, got married to Pakistani national Minal Khan, 2.5 months ago,” Minal’s lawyer, Ankush Sharma, told ANI. Sharma added that Minal applied for a long-term visa and even appeared for an interview. Positive recommendations were sent to the Ministry of Home Affairs to grant her the visa.
But Minal’s troubles weren’t over. She had to leave Jammu, and soon after, the court intervened. “The Pahalgam attack happened, and she didn’t have a long-term visa, so she was sent to Attari border,” said Sharma. After the court’s interim order, Minal was allowed to return to Jammu. Minal herself expressed her desire to stay with her husband.
“We should be allowed to stay with the family,” she said.
She also condemned the attack that had caused so many innocent deaths. “We condemn the barbaric killings of innocents in the attack. They should be punished severely,” she added.
