Kolkata student fakes abduction, demands Rs 15L

KOLKATA: A Class-IX scholar of an English-medium faculty in Howrah was arrested together with his maternal uncle on Sunday morning for faking his personal abduction and trying to extort cash from his folks.

The 15-year-old boy had gone missing from his central Kolkata one-room chawl closing Sunday. Soon after, his phone got switched off and he didn't return to his area. His mom and her neighbours carried out an extensive seek in all conceivable puts. On Monday, his mom lodged a missing criticism and hours later she received a call from his phone, where an unknown caller mentioned he was abducted and the asked for a ransom of Rs 30 lakhs.

Soon, the mummy referred to as the boy’s father who works at an ideal marketplace in Africa’s Congo. Later, he flew down to Kolkata and the family knowledgeable the police officers. Meanwhile the family saved negotiating with the abductors and taken down the ransom call for to 15 lakhs.

“From the very beginning of the investigation, it gave the impression that the boy had some involvement in the case as we had witnesses and CCTV footage to verify that he had gone to Howrah all by himself. So we asked the fogeys to stay on talking with the alleged abductors and ask for extra time and get some clues about their whereabouts. The family had a difficult time arranging the cash. They had Rs four.five lakhs with themselves and the rest they had to borrow from family members, during which we had additionally helped,” mentioned Praveen Tripathi, joint commissioner of police (detective division) of Kolkata Police.

The police officers tried to find the callers however they saved changing their vacation spot after every name. “Hence, when the abductor asked the father to come to a location in Asansol to pay them the cash, our officers started trailing them on the same train on Saturday,” mentioned the officer.

The father of the coed boarded a coach. A team of police officers from the anti-rowdy squad, who're specialised in anti-abduction operations, together with the police officers from Jorasanko police station in simple garments followed him intently. When he reached Asansol, the kidnappers changed the positioning and wanted the ransom to be paid in Jasidih. They stuck a train and achieve Jasidih to search out that the spot for handing over ransom can be Jhajha.

At Jhajha, the father met a early life, whose face was in part lined. The early life asked him to drop the bag containing the cash on the monitor and to recede farther. The father did accordingly. But police officers began following the early life from a distance and reached a spot where they found two youths dividing the cash amongst themselves.

“Our officers intercepted them and recovered all of the ransom amount. The maternal uncle is 22 years previous whilst his buddy is 21 12 months previous,” mentioned joint commissioner (crime) Praveen Tripathi.

Interrogation published the boy was at Patna and was meant to go back to Kolkata a day after fee of ransom. The team went to Patna and nabbed the coed. Investigators suspected the coed’s hand in all of the drama. They interrogated him one by one and in addition with two different accused. The incongruity in his commentary led police officers to interrogate him further. He broke down and confessed that he planned his personal abduction.

“The boy was a large fan of hindi and bhojpuri motion pictures and had planned the abduction on the traces of kidnapping motion pictures itself. He says he wanted the cash to maintain his way of life,” mentioned an officer probing into the case.

All 3 will likely be produced sooner than a town courtroom on Monday.