I believe she was targeted by the ruling political party, who have a history of harassing and doxxing their critics, (or the current indian government itself) to demoralise her and besmirch her reputation as a journalist. And that happened. She is now attacked by her critics for her "naivety", and ridiculed by them, and she went into depression and took a break. (It all points to that as she was never asked for any money, as is is usual with these kind of scam. )

I seriously doubt that they would waste their time on this. They have much more powerful tools at their disposal.

1. Aatish Taseer: His OCI card (something like dual citizenship, but not quite) was cancelled. He claims he's been told not to even attempt to visit India ever again.

2. Rana Ayyub: she created a donation website and got clobbered with tax evasion.

3. Numerous NGOs: including Green Peace and Amnesty have had their licenses revoked.

There are many more such cases, but off the top of my head, these jumped out.

I don't think the ruling party and its political supporters are clever enough to execute it. It was surely quite weird what happened with her though.