A 40-year-old man allegedly staged his own kidnapping and demanded 90 lakh from his 62-year-old father, before being caught sleeping in a room in Karnataka’s Hassan district along with two associates.
During interrogation, police allegedly found that Manish had fabricated the kidnapping with the help of his associates in an attempt to extort money from his father.
Alarmed by the call, Manohar approached the police, following which they began tracking Manish’s mobile phone. The phone was initially switched off, but Manohar later received another call from a different number asking whether the ransom amount had been arranged. The police tracked the second number to the Hassan region and traced the location to a room, where they allegedly found Manish sleeping comfortably with two other men. During interrogation, police allegedly found that Manish had fabricated the kidnapping with the help of his associates in an attempt to extort money from his father. A case has been registered, and all three accused have been arrested. They have been remanded in judicial custody at the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison.
Manish told his father that he was travelling to Gadag district by train in connection with a money-related transaction and would call him the following morning, according to police. “This was not an actual kidnapping for ransom, but a plan hatched by the person who claimed to have been kidnapped because he was in need of some money, and since his father was not giving him the money which he required, he made this whole plan of being kidnapped to demand money from his parents,” said Yathish, Deputy Commissioner of Police, West Division.
