Accused of involvement in the abduction of property dealer Manoj Kumar Gupta, Mamta Maseeh, who was arrested from Delhi said that the main accused Vinay Tyagi had met her at a hotel in Delhi where she was employed. She claimed that Tyagi had offered to give her Rs 20 lakh for aiding in the plan to kidnap Manoj and another businessman for ransom. Stating that she had a monthly income of Rs 10,000 from her hotel job, Mamta claimed to have come under his influence to make money. Tyagi had given her two mobile phone numbers with one of them being Manoj’s . She had given a missed call on both the numbers. The other Meerut based businessman targeted for abduction did not respond to the missed call while Manoj responded and was apparently befriended by Mamta over the phone. Before meeting Manoj, she met Tyagi on February 17 in Meerut where he had given her mobile phones and SIM cards. Vinay told her to follow instructions in the planned abduction of Manoj in Dehradun, she claimed, adding that she had not received any money from Tyagi for her actions in this case.