Callous: Amit Jaiswal, 36, and his lover Preeti Surin, both covereing their faces, admitted the murder when they were arrested
She had met the pair on the set of Madhur Bhandarkar's yet-to-be-released film Heroine, where she had a bit-part role.
Thapa's mother is believed to have paid 60,000 (£730) Rupees for her release, but never saw her daughter again.
Detective have said they believe she was strangled in a hotel and her body was hacked into
pieces and thrown in a water tank.
Then in a final act of callous depravity her head was thrown from a moving bus on its way to Mumbai.
Mumbai crime branch policemen recovered the body from Surin's house in Allahabad on Wednesday.
Jaiswal and Surin confessed the crime to the Mumbai Police after their arrest on Saturday night and said they were taken
in by Thapa's pretentious stories about her
'affluent family'.
'The accused believed that Thapa was
from a wealthy family because her lifestyle, despite not landing a big
film role, hid the fact that she actually came from a middle-class
background.
They
plotted to kidnap her for a ransom of 1,500,000 Rupees (£18,000) and
kill her after the payment was made,' a police officer said.
Thapa
was a struggling actress who earlier played a minor role in last year's
horror film 404 and she appeared in some TV commercials.
The police said they told Thapa's
mother that they would drug her daughter and make a pornographic film
if she didn't deposit the money in the victim's account. They also took her debit card.
The mother deposited 60,000 Rupees in Thapa's account, but that didn't
save her daughter.
A police officer said: 'They returned to Mumbai from Allahabad by bus. On their way they threw out the bag.'
In the meantime, Thapa's brother
registered a complaint with the police in Dehradun on March 17 about his
missing sister. The Mumbai Police were promptly alerted.
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