A Hyderabad-based video jockey was kidnapped by a businesswoman, who was determined to marry him after she came across an impersonator using his photo on a matrimonial website. The woman used a tracking device on his car to keep a watch on him and hired kidnappers to carry out the job, said police. She was arrested after the video jockey filed a complaint.

The woman, 31, ran a digital marketing business while the man worked as an anchor at a music channel.

Two years ago, she came across a profile on Bharat Matrimony that used the VJ’s photos and started chatting with him. On realizing it was not a genuine account, she reached out to the VJ separately via an instant messaging app.

He told her it was a fake account that someone had created using his photo and that he had lodged a police complaint. She, however, continued messaging him, which led him to block her number, police said.

The saga could have ended her, but the woman was determined to marry the video jockey.

Believing she could sort it out, she planned to kidnap him and hired four men for this job, police said. She also fitted an AirTag to his car to monitor his movements.

The VJ was kidnapped on February 11. They thrashed him and took him to the woman’s office. She let him go only after he agreed to respond to her calls, police said.

Once freed, he went straight to the Uppal police station and filed a complaint, leading to the arrest of the woman and the four kidnappers.

The Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress have agreed to a 4:3 seat-sharing formula for Delhi to put up a joint fight in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. They have also reached a deal for Gujarat, Haryana, Goa, and Chandigarh.

In Delhi, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party will contest four out of the seven seats – West Delhi, South Delhi, East Delhi, and New Delhi. The remaining three – North East Delhi, North West Delhi, and Chandni Chowk – will go to the grand old party.

In the 2019 election, the BJP won all seven seats.

The seat-sharing announcement was made during a joint press conference of the AAP and the Congress, weeks after the opposition’s INDIA bloc delivered their first electoral win in the Chandigarh mayoral poll.

AAP will contest from two seats in Gujarat – Bharuch and Bhavnagar – and one in Haryana – Kurukshetra. Both seats in Goa and the sole constituency in Chandigarh will be contested by the Congress. The AAP had declared a candidate for South Goa last week and will withdraw it to make way for its ally.

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Seat-sharing has been one of the major headaches for the INDIA bloc with the aspirations of the regional parties dragging the negotiations. The Congress’s recent electoral setbacks in three heartland states have emboldened the regional powers to seek a bigger share of seats.

The Congress has already struck a deal with Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party. The party will contest from 17 seats in Uttar Pradesh, which sends the most number of MPs to the Lok Sabha. A deadlock remains in Maharashtra with Congress and the Shiv Sena (UBT) yet to decide on eight seats.

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West Bengal too remains a challenge for the Congress with Trinamool asserting yesterday they will contest all 42 seats. Sources said Trinamool isn’t ready to offer more than two seats to the Congress, which has been seeking at least five in the eastern state.

The INDIA bloc, which was set up last year to take on the BJP, has already lost two key members – Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal-United and Jayant Chaudhary’s Rashtra Lok Dal. Both have aligned with the BJP.

At least 15 pilgrims – including children and women – died in Uttar Pradesh after the vehicle they were travelling in fell in a pond, the police said.

The pilgrims were headed to Kadarganj to take a holy dip in the river Ganga when the accident occurred in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed anguish over the incident and announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each for the family of those who have died, and Rs 50,000 each for the injured.

The Chief Minister has also instructed the authorities to ensure that the injured pilgrims receive proper treatment.