A 35-year-old Polish woman with a long expired visa who had created much drama for three weeks at the Juhu police station last month with her vociferous refusal to leave the country was arrested on Monday after she assaulted an immigration department officer at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
The woman, accompanied by her two-year-old baby daughter, has spent the last 15 to 20 days in the immigration department's Refusal Room while waiting to be deported. Still refusing to leave the country, she finally got bail on Monday evening with diplomatic officials set to restart deportation procedures.
Apparently suffering from a mental illness, she had spent the past year dodging authorities in various parts of the country before being picked up by the Juhu Police in early May along with her infant daughter born in Vrindavan. A self-proclaimed Lord Krishna devotee, she even claims she is married to Krishna, is not in touch with the baby's father.
At the time of being picked up by the Juhu police based on a complaint by the temple management of ISKCON in Juhu, she and the baby had no diplomatic papers of any kind barring Xerox copies of her passport.
While Polish diplomatic office representatives had taken her custody from the Juhu police in the first week of May with the intention of sending her back to Poland much against her wishes, she refused to board the aircraft when she was requested to do so about four days back. Forced to board, she then reportedly threatened to kill her daughter if she was not allowed to alight.
"The frightened pilot used his discretionary power and ordered her deplaning," said an airport source.
According to sources, she was arrested on Sunday evening after the Immigration department lodged a complaint.
“We have arrested her and she was produced in the court on
Monday morning and granted judicial custody. After that we sent her to Byculla jail,” said senior police inspector J Giram of the Sahar police station. She later procured bail.
The woman says she is a Lord Krishna devotee and arrived in India in 2008 on six month tourist visa. She has visited ISKCON temples around the country and in April this year, she landed in Mumbai along with her two-year-old daughter and was first seen in the vicinity of ISKCON temple.
She was wearing a long vermillion mark on her forehead, dressed in robes, and begging for money. After that she went inside the temple premises and refused to leave. She threatened to commit suicide if the temple authority forced her to leave.
The temple authorities then informed the Juhu police. The Juhu police had approached diplomatic officials of Poland in New Delhi.
Worried after she left without intimation from the location where she had been kept first, the police tracked her down and decided to host her in the Juhu police station itself, after taking permission from the Special Branch.
“The woman constables were looking after the baby, washing her clothes and providing them with food. Interestingly, one day she even managed to lock one woman constable in the police station toilet and tried to flee but was caught,” said a police source.
She apparently landed in New Delhi in 2008, before going on to visit Vrindavan in UP where she lived for four years. That’s where her baby was born, in August 2011. She claims she is not in touch with the baby’s father. Six months ago, she came to Mumbai and lived in various locations before reaching ISKCON on April 9.
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