Hyderabad, July 09: When his repeated messages failed to elicit a response, a love-struck youngster from Kerala flew down to Hyderabad with a ‘proposal’ to marry his dream girl, Sania Mirza, just two days ahead of her engagement.
A BTech dropout from Manjeri in Kerala, Ashraf walked into Sania’s residence in Banjara Hills on Tuesday night around 10.30. A few steps into the house and he was accosted by policemen who enquired the purpose of his visit. “I want to marry Sania Mirza. I want to talk to her,” the youngster blurted out much to the surprise of the cops.
The next moment, Ashraf, along with his friend D Mohanty who was standing outside the house, were taken into custody. Sania’s father Imran Mirza and her fiance Mohammed Sohrab Mirza lodged a complaint with the police around 11.15 p.m.
A police picket had been posted at Sania’s residence a few days ago after threatening SMSes were sent to her mobile phone.
Sania’s father is the one who normally carries her phone. At first, the messages were fairly innocuous like “I desire to marry Sania.” But later, their tone changed. “Sania will face the consequences if she is not married to me….” was one among several such messages.
“It was Ashraf who was sending these messages for the last two days and he confessed to it,” Inspector Mohammed Iqbal Siddiqui of Banjara Hills police station said.
–Agencies–