Bengaluru, Aug. 23 -- Just hours after she had claimed in an interview to a YouTube channel that her daughter Ananya Bhat had gone missing from Dharmasthala in 2003 and has not been found since, Sujatha Bhat, an elderly woman, made an U-turn and said that the Ananya Bhat missing case was a concocted story.

Alleging that she was forced by the YouTube channel to narrate the concocted story and also forced her to tell the names of Girish Mattannavar, Mahesh Thimarody and two others, Sujatha Bhat said, she was also told that they would save her from problems.

The channel staff made her to sit inside a car and made her narrate the concocted story, she maintained.

Claiming that she was sent along with YouTube channel staff by an Advocate who...