Etah girl stages own kidnapping with help of boyfriend for Rs 1 crore, held

AGRA: A 19-year-old girl was arrested on Saturday for staging her kidnapping with the help of her boyfriend to seek Rs 1 crore from her parents. The incident took place in Nagla Bhajna village of Marhara police limit in Etah district.
According to police, the girl, who went missing on late Thursday night, made several calls from her phone to her parents and demanded money. However, the woman was caught from a nearby farm on Saturday morning, whereas her boyfriend escaped.
Speaking to TOI, Rahul Kumar, superintendent of police (SP), crime, Etah, said, “The couple, who are neighbours, were in a relationship for nearly two years.However, the girl’s parents were against the relationship. Recently, she became aware that her family is going to open a school and is investing Rs 1 crore on the project.”
“She, along with her boyfriend, then hatched a plan to extort money and elope. After leaving her house on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, the girl, pretending to be a kidnapper, made a ransom call in a Haryanvi tone to her parents,” he said.
The parents then decided to approach the police. However, during the investigation, the police found “something fishy” about the whole incident.
“Initially, we thought that it was the work of a professional kidnapper gang and deployed the entire police machinery to locate the girl. But after continuous negotiations and long-hour calls, we understood that something was fishy about the case. Therefore, our surveillance team tracked the girl’s phone number, which she carried along with herself. It was later found out that she was using her phone for a ransom call. On Saturday, she was found just a couple of hundred meters from her home. We have detained her for questioning,” added Kumar.
The officer said a police team has been formed to trace her boyfriend. “We will lodge FIR against the duo once we ascertain the sequence of event,” he added.