Hours after she responded to a call for rescuing an Indian allegedly abducted and tortured in Serbia, she tonight said the kidnapping was "stage-managed" and the video "fake".
Swaraj, known to quickly help Indians in distress in foreign countries, intervened after she was approached by a netizen who tweeted,"@SushmaSwaraj please help my brother his life in big trouble somebody kidnap in Serbia country and ask him send the money unless we kill him."
She later tweeted, "Vinay Mahajan has been found and is in safe custody of Serbian authorities.
"Mr Luther - This is because of the agent who sent him there. This agent deserves exemplary punishment. @ProtectorGenGOI," she said in a series of tweets.
She, however, took to twitter late in the night, saying "Rajiv - I have all the facts before me. Your brother was not abducted.
"He stage managed his own abduction and the video is fake," she said.
Reacting to a separate complaint of nearly 500 Indian workers being deprived of salaries in Bahrain, she tweeted,"Indian Embassy in Bahrain is seized of this matter and will help them.
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