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According to cops, 30-year-old Syed Emad Hasan kidnapped the 27-year-old woman after she refused to marry him, as he was from a different religion.

The IT engineer allegedly first tried to blackmail her by threatening to send photos and videos of them together to her family.

When she agreed to meet – to get the footage back – Hasan kidnapped her, locked her in his flat, subjected her to five days of sexual abuse and threatened to set her on fire, according to police.

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Officers found the woman bruised and in shock inside her alleged kidnapper's flat after she managed to send an emergency text and post a cry for help on social media.

A police spokesman said: "He took three days’ leave and brutalised and sexually assaulted her.

"He threatened to continue doing so until she agreed to marry him after converting to Islam.

"He even threatened to set her on fire and strangle her.”

Hasan was arrested in Hyderabad, India, earlier this month.