A Punjab woman on pilgrimage to Pakistan goes missing. The mother of three emerges in Lahore as a covert to Islam, married to a Muslim man. Now her family in Punjab's Hoshiarpur believes she has been honey-trapped by the notorious Inter-Services Intelligence, the Pakistani spy agency.

Kiran Bala went to Pakistan on April 12 as a member of the Shirmoni Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee group. Visited Nankana Sahib on April 14. Vanished on April 16. A video of her getting married surfaced the next day. She had become Amna Bibi. The nikaah document in the video shows her name as Amina.

Her father-in-law Tarsem Singh told India Today that she addicted to the mobile phone, adding she was very active on Facebook and WhatsApp.

Singh, who works as a priest in a Sikh temple in Hoshiarpur, said, "We noticed her speaking to people on the phone for long and when asked, she would say that she was talking to a relative. I doubt that she was honey-trapped by the ISI for spying."

Thirty-two-year-old Kiran, a widow and a mother of three, left India on April 10, saying she wanted to visit Nankana Sahib in Pakistan on Baisakhi.

Later, however, she told her family that she had converted to Islam and become Amna Bibi.

Kiran's husband had died in a road accident in 2013. She used to work at a Himachal biscuit factory but quit later to run odd jobs.

"After leaving her job, she became a mobile phone addict. The children told me that Kiran was active on social media. I fear that she might be involved in anti-national activities too," Tarsem Singh said.

Kiran Bala's case, however, is not the first.

In 2015, Sunil Singh, a resident of Sandhawala village in Faridkot district, had vanished in Nankana Sahib along with his wife and two children. Investigations revealed that Sunil was a Pakistani spy who forged Indian documents with the help of locals.

It is alleged that the ISI has been using men and women to honey trap Punjabi youth. Police had arrested a 57-year-old Pakistan spy, Ahsan Ul Haq, in Jalandhar who had married a Sikh woman and also bought a plot near the Punjab town using fake documents.

The ISI is also using social media to radicalise unemployed Sikh youth by luring them into spying, police said.

Punjab police and other intelligence agencies are now scanning Kiran's Facebook account and call details to probe the allegations against her.

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