NEW DELHI: The man who abducted Snapdeal employee Deepti Sarna in Ghaziabad last week is said to have mimicked a 1990s movie in which Shah Rukh Khan played a stalker.
Devendra, a young man from Haryana, first cast his eyes upon Sarna at the Rajiv Chowk metro station in January-February 2015 and took to stalking her.
Last week, he persuaded four of his friends, Pradeep, Mohit, Faheem and Majid, to join him in abducting the woman, telling them that her father was a rich who would pay a hefty ransom.
The plan went wrong and Devendra and his quartet of sideys are in police hands.
Devendra's plan was quite elaborate in its execution. According to the police, Devendra bought two autorickshaws and began living as an auto-driver in Ghaziabad for three months and conducted 150 recces before abducting the woman.
“Like Shah Rukh in the movie 'Darr', Devendra developed an infatuation for the pretty girl," senior superintendent of police of Ghaziabad Dharmendra Yadav. "He felt he had no life without her. Soon, he started to stalk her. He tailed her at least 150 times in the past one year. By then Deepti had started to work at Snapdeal. Devender knew everything about her itinerary. But he also found out, disturbingly for him, that she was meeting a person, Mr A. He was Deepti's friend but Devender thought there was more to it. Mr A became his No. 1 enemy. Soon, he decided it was time to work out his plan.”
On February 9, after leaving the Snapdeal office in Gurgaon, Deepti took the metro to Ghaziabad and then got into an auto. Devendra was in his auto-rickshaw outside the metro station and his friend Pradeep in another.
Deepti was kidnapped at knife-point. But the plan came unfurled as she escaped from her kidnappers. The abductors did not make their ransom demand.