A woman entrepreneur was arrested in Hyderabad on Friday for allegedly stalking and kidnapping a video jockey, with the intention of marrying him. According to police, the 31-year-old woman was an “intimacy-seeking stalker” who went to the extent of installing a tracking device on the man’s car to monitor his movements and hiring men to kidnap the 27-year-old victim.
The accused, identified as Bhogireddy Trishna, runs a digital marketing business. She saw the photos of victim Pranav Sistla, an anchor for a music channel on TV, on a matrimony website and started chatting with the account holder two years ago.
She chatted with the account holder until she realized it was not a genuine account and some cyber miscreant was misusing Pranav’s photo as the profile picture, instead of his own photo.
Police said that Trishna then found Pranav’s phone number and contacted him through an instant messaging app, where he informed her that some unknown person had used his photo and created a fake account on the matrimony site and that he had lodged a complaint regarding the matter with the Cyber Crime police station.
However, the woman continued sending messages to the Pranav, who then blocked her number.
This did not disallude Trishna, who was determined to stay in touch with the video jockey.
Determined to marry him, Trishna planned to kidnap him, thinking she could get things sorted out, police said.
She tasked a man working in her office to carry out the job for Rs 50,000, according to a report by NDTV. They reportedly fitted an AirTag to his car to monitor his movements, which was later recovered by the cops.
The man hired four others and kidnapped Pranav on February 11 on the pretext that the impersonator had collected some money from Trishna.
They took him to Trishna’s office, where they beat him up badly, police said.
Fearing for his life, the TV anchor agreed to respond to the woman’s calls and only then was he let off, police said.
He later lodged a complaint with Uppal police station, and a case was registered under 363 (kidnapping), 341 (wrongful restraint), 342 (wrongful confinement), and relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
During the investigation, the police apprehended the accused woman along with the four men she hired to carry out the abduction. Further investigation is on.
(With PTI Inputs)
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