Real life Veer Zara: illegal swimming across border to marry, woman arrested

Krishna Mandal, a 22-year-old Bangladeshi woman, swam across the border to marry her Indian boyfriend as she did not have a passport to visit India.

Krishna and Abhik Mandal met on social media for the first time, and fell in love. She swam in the Matla River after crossing the Sunderbans to meet and marry her boyfriend. She reached her destination after swimming for an hour. Her boyfriend was waiting for her in the car. They later drove to a temple in Kolkata where they got married.

Abhik also tried entering Bangladesh but he could not enter the country because he did not have a passport either.

However, after the story went viral on social media, the woman was arrested by the police for illegally entering India without having a passport.