In April 2012, during the filming of
Heroine, Thapa was kidnapped by another actor who had a minor role in the film, Amit Jaiswal, and his girlfriend, Preeti Surin, who were allegedly convinced she belonged to a wealthy family. She was held for a ransom of 1.5 million (approximately ). They told her mother that, if the ransom was not paid, she would be forced into
pornographic films. Her mother paid 60,000 rupees. Meenakshi was later strangled and decapitated in a hotel in
Gorakhpur. Her torso was left in a water tank and her head thrown out of a bus on the way to
Mumbai. The perpetrators were caught with the
SIM card from her mobile phone and confessed to the crime. == Aftermath ==