LUCKNOW: A 35-year-old engineer named Naman Kumar allegedly staged his own kidnapping to extort money from his family after losing money in cryptocurrency. The man who works for a IT companyallegedly posed as the "kidnapper" and called his parents through different voice modulation apps to threaten them.
According to police, they received a complaint from the man's family around 2 p.m. Monday. Naman's mother complained that her son had been kidnapped near KGMU and that they received multiple extortion calls and messages for Rs 20 lakh from their phone.
Additional West SBC, Chiranjeev Nath Sinha He said: โWe checked messages and calls. The person she called was trying to extort Rs 20 lakh from them and using WhatsApp to communicate. The police team went to the family's home and analyzed multiple CCTV cameras. We found out that the man repeatedly said that his son will face the same fate as 'Viren', who was abducted long ago in Bihar's Rohtas district and never returned," Sinha said.
Sinha added that here we came to know that the person who has been kidnapped is a family acquaintance or close relative as he knows that the family hails from Bihar.
"In the meantime, the technical surveillance led us to the Amausi airport and we checked the security cameras in which the man was seen landing at the Amausi airport at 10 am and then visiting his friends in between," Sinha said.
In addition, the technical team tracked the location of the man's mobile phone in the Naka Hindola area, after which an alert was sounded and six teams of plainclothes police checked around 250 hotels without creating a scare.
"We found the man staying at the Vimal residence in the Pandariba area of โโCharbagh," ADCP said.
Sinha said that when he examined him, he confessed to organizing his own kidnapping while in financial crisis.
"He had recently lost money by investing in bitcoin and owed 54 lakh rupees to many of his acquaintances. He had asked others for help but they had refused. He then hatched the 'kidnapping' scheme to extort money from the family while they were planning the marriage of his uncle's daughter," said Sinha
According to police, they received a complaint from the man's family around 2 p.m. Monday. Naman's mother complained that her son had been kidnapped near KGMU and that they received multiple extortion calls and messages for Rs 20 lakh from their phone.
Additional West SBC, Chiranjeev Nath Sinha He said: โWe checked messages and calls. The person she called was trying to extort Rs 20 lakh from them and using WhatsApp to communicate. The police team went to the family's home and analyzed multiple CCTV cameras. We found out that the man repeatedly said that his son will face the same fate as 'Viren', who was abducted long ago in Bihar's Rohtas district and never returned," Sinha said.
Sinha added that here we came to know that the person who has been kidnapped is a family acquaintance or close relative as he knows that the family hails from Bihar.
"In the meantime, the technical surveillance led us to the Amausi airport and we checked the security cameras in which the man was seen landing at the Amausi airport at 10 am and then visiting his friends in between," Sinha said.
In addition, the technical team tracked the location of the man's mobile phone in the Naka Hindola area, after which an alert was sounded and six teams of plainclothes police checked around 250 hotels without creating a scare.
"We found the man staying at the Vimal residence in the Pandariba area of โโCharbagh," ADCP said.
Sinha said that when he examined him, he confessed to organizing his own kidnapping while in financial crisis.
"He had recently lost money by investing in bitcoin and owed 54 lakh rupees to many of his acquaintances. He had asked others for help but they had refused. He then hatched the 'kidnapping' scheme to extort money from the family while they were planning the marriage of his uncle's daughter," said Sinha
