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Another stalker barges into Sania residence

Last updated on: July 9, 2009 

Image: Sania Mirza
Photographs: Reuters

It pays to be a teenage sensation. Sania Mirza's irresistible glamour and popularity seems to have become a problem as another stalker tried to barge into her posh Hyderabad  residence, seeking marital bliss with her.

For your  -- and all prospective lovers -- information, Sania is getting engaged tomorrow evening. 

The police arrested 22-year-old Ajay Singh Yadav on Thursday afternoon when he tried to force his way into tennis star's residence at Banjara Hills.

Reportage: Mohammed Siddique in Hyderabad

Stalkers held

Image: Security has been upped at Sania's residence
Photographs: Snaps India
Yadav is a student of Dronacharya College of Engineering in Noida  This was second such incident in two days. Mohammed Arshad, another civil engineering student, created a ruckus, threatening to commit suicide if Sania did not marry him.

Another stalker barges into Sania residence

Image: Ajay Singh
Photographs: Snaps India
"I love her for the last five years and she should marry me," demanded Ajay Singh . Ashraf told Sania for last two years and he had been sending SMS to her before rushing to Hyderabad to what he calls a bid to stop her slated engagement.

As Ajay Singh repeated the drama today, the policemen deployed at Sania's residence took him in to custody and sent him to Banjara Hills police station.

Another stalker barges into Sania residence

Image: Ashraf in police custody
Photographs: Snaps India

Security has been tightened at the residence and more police personnel have been stationed there as Sania's engagement with a family friend Sohrab Mirza is scheduled for Friday evening. 

Banjara Hills Police, which booked against Ashraf under sections 452 (trespass), 506 (criminal intimidation) 507 (threatening through anonymous communication), and 509 (uttering words or making gestures outraging the modesty of a woman) produced Ashraf before a local court which remanded him in 14 days' judicial custody. Now a similar case was being booked against Ajay Singh Yadav.