SHILLONG, July 8 – The family of a 22-year-old girl from Meghalaya who went missing after she left for Bangalore to meet a man she met online, has received a ransom demand of Rs five lakh. Sahana Rymbai of Nongmyngsong here 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 today.

Despite repeated calls by Shenaz to Sahana’s 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’s number, an anonymous person demanded Rs five lakh for her ‘release’, Shenaz said.

While the male voice initially asked Sahana’s family to deposit Rs 5 lakh in an account of Karnataka Bank (Gramin), they were later asked to go to the Bangalore airport, President of Civil Society Women’s 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.

Meghalaya police are coordinating with their Bangalore counterparts to trace Sahana. – PTI

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