New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- A woman named Sujatha Bhat who was the first to lodge a fresh police complaint on 15 July regarding her "daughter Ananya Bhat" disappearance in 2003, has now said that the story she told was "fake and is not true". She alleged that activists pressured her to create the story due to a "property issue".

"It is not true. There was never any daughter named Ananya Bhat," HT quoted her statement to a Youtube channel, adding the photograph that was shared as a proof of her "daughter's" existence was also "completely fake". She claimed that two well-known activists, namely, Girish Mattannavar and T Jayanti asked her to make up the story.

The case was filed after the whistleblower went public to allege decades-long undocume...