padma's son. he and dev used to friends and was intended to get married to radhika. but when he found out dev and radhika love each other, he pretended to be mad and many times tried to kill dev. when rohan exposed himself as sane to dev and radhika, he forcefully tried to get radhika accepted as his wife and tried to kill dev when he intervened. (dev's friend and half-brother, antagonist)