Sahana Rymbai of Nongmyngsong went missing on June 29 shortly after reaching Bangalore from Guwahati to meet her online male friend, who had introduced himself as Samir Gafur, her mother Shenaz said.
Despite repeated calls by her mother to Sahana&aposs number, she remained incommunicado for two days.
Later she briefly came on line to inform her mother that she was with Samir. When her mother called again on her daughter&aposs number, an anonymous person demanded Rs five lakh for her&aposrelease', Shenaz claimed.
" While the male voice initially asked Sahana&aposs family to deposit Rs 5 lakh in an account of Karnataka Bank (Gramin), they were later asked to come to the Bangalore airport," President of Civil Society Women&aposs Organisation Agnes Kharshiing said quoting Shenaz.
Samir, while chatting with Sahana, had claimed to run several businesses in Bangalore and invited her to the city, a police official investigating the case said.