A woman doctor from Lucknow, who was among eight people arrested after the busting of an inter-state terror module, had married a man from Maharashtra, but the couple got divorced in 2015, a police official said here on Tuesday.

Citing initial information, the official said Dr Shaheen Sayeed, also named in Monday’s Delhi car blast case, had married a Maharashtra resident named Zafar Hayat.

Their marriage did not work for long and in 2015, the couple parted ways, he said without providing more details.

After divorce, Sayeed, associated with Al Falah University in Haryana’s Faridabad, was staying alone and there is a possibility that she may have been indoctrinated during this period, the official said.

Earlier, the doctor’s father admitted in Lucknow that his daughter had married a man

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