noida shipra malik 29 was inspired by a popular tv crime serial in working out her modus operandi while pretending to be abductedshipra had visited the bank and made a blank call to police helpline 100 to mislead police and her family the plan she hatched to return was again from an episode of the crime serial what did not fit into her scheme was her reaction to seeing her sons face on tv but once she decided to beat a retreat the crime serial again helped her create an abduction sequenceshe went to sultanpur as it was an secluded place she then ran a few metres to pretend having escaped from the clutches of abductors she then contacted the sultanpur sarpanch and from his phone contacted her husband the makers of the crime serial are now considering making an episode based on shipras casedig meerut range laxmi singh said shipra was fond of the crime serial telecast on an entertainment channel being a regular viewer of the show she was quite familiar with the working style of police singh saida senior police officer associated with the investigation said she had planned to leave home two or three days before monday on the day before leaving home she had seen the crime show again to mislead police she visited ing vysa bank in sector 18 and made a pcr call at 256pm on monday he saidwhen i questioned shipra she told us that she knew the police would reach the bank on seeing her on the cctv footage she cooked up a story that after returning from the bank she was on her way home when the criminals in a maruti van had waylaid her and held her hostage at knifepointthey had covered her with a blanker and dumped her behind the van in her story the criminals had taken away her mobile phone and purse but in the same breath she also said that she somehow got her mobile phone back and made a call to the pcr the officer saidan office bearer of crime serial production unit said we are planning an episode on this case as its an interesting story with much drama