A Bollywood actress, Meenakshi Thapar, was allegedly kidnapped and beheaded by two struggling actors in an attempt to extort £20000 (R250000) from her family.
Thapar, 26, who had appeared in the Indian horror film "404" last year, met the two aspiring actors alleged to have killed her on the set of her latest film, "Heroine".
Amit Jaiswal, 36, and his lover, Preeti Surin, apparently kidnapped Thapar after listening to her boast about her family's wealth and status in Dehra Dun in northern India.
They invited her on a trip to Gorakhpur, a small town close to India's border with Nepal, where they held her hostage and sent a ransom demand to her Nepali parents.
According to police, her kidnappers warned her mother they would force Thapar to take part in porn films if their demands were not met. The mother paid part of the ransom but Thapar was found dead soon afterwards.
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