more-inMumbai: Unaware of the storm he would kick up, a 16-year-old boy from Saki Naka staged his own kidnapping with his friend to raise money for his girlfriend. Later the same day, the boy’s father received a call from a man who claimed to have kidnapped his son, and demanded ₹50 lakh as ransom. The Crime Branch’s Unit X, which was conducting parallel inquiries into the case, traced the location of the cell phone from which the ransom call was made to Manor in Palghar district. DCP (Detection-I) Nisar Tamboli said, “We raided the lodge and found the boy and a 19-year-old youth in a room. To raise money for her, the boy decided to stage his own kidnapping and enlisted the aid of his 19-year-old friend.

Source: The Hindu September 23, 2017 18:56 UTC