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Bollywood actress Meenakshi Thapa's headless body was found in an Allahabad septic tank. Who was she and why was she killed?
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Meenakshi Thapar was a Bollywood actress who made her debut in the 2011 horror film 404.
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Thapa, a budding Bollywood actress, was abducted on March 30.
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The accused Amit Jaiswal, an actor who did small parts in films, and Preeti Sarin allegedly confessed to killing Thapa.
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She was reportedly kidnapped for ransom.
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The duo first befriended Thapa noting her high profile lifestyle and then brought her to Allahabad under the pretext of fixing a meeting with a Bhojpuri producer.
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Later, she was abducted by Jaiswal and Sarin, police said.
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The accused, who have dabbled with some modelling assignments as well, called up Thapa's mother in Dehradun demanding Rs 1,50,000 as ransom to let her off.
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However, the parents could cough up only Rs 60,000. It was then that the duo decided to kill Thapa, police said.
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According to police, the duo strangled the actress and then severed her head from the torso.
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They dumped the torso in a septic tank in the Darbhanga Colony area of the city and the severed head in the Vindhyasani area on the Allahabad-Varanasi highway.
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The torso of Thapa was fished out of the septic tank after the accused led the police team to the area.
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She completed her schooling in Dehra Dun.
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She reportedly went missing from the location of the film Heroine.
