She was eighteen years old when this incident happened. She studying Bsc Computer Science in a college in Mumbai. Her father was a retired government officer and her mother was a home maker. She had an elder sister who had completed Engineering and was working in an IT company. She was 25 years old.

Her sister, Ragini was married to a Business man in Malaysia. They spent their honeymoon in Europe and got settled in Malaysia. Ragini was very beautiful but she got a bit fat in a year after marriage. Sonia always looked fresh and sexy. But that was only after this incident.