LUCKNOW: A student of class 9 staged his own kidnapping in Sitapur to buy an iPhone with the ransom that he planned to collect from his father. He took the step after his father, who owns a small garment store, expressed his inability to buy him the phone.
The minor, however, ran out of luck once police started investigations into the case and traced his location to his friend’s house. The boy had used his friend’s phone to make a ransom call demanding Rs 5 lakh from his father.
Sitapur kotwali SHO TP Singh said that the boy studies in a government school and lives with his father as his mother had died when he was just one.
“When the student did not return home after school on Wednesday, his father and other relatives started a manhunt. Later, around 8.30 pm, they got a ransom call on WhatsApp for Rs 5 lakh. The amount had to be delivered at Khairabad near a mosque,” said Singh.
After the father informed the police, cops, cyber and SOG teams of the district got on the case.
“We assured the complainant about his son’s rescue and a team in civvies was attached with him while he was collecting the amount for the safe release of his son,” said the SHO.
By 11 pm, the police had zeroed in on the location of the mobile phone used for the ransom call. When the mobile phone owner, a footwear shop owner, was questioned, it came to fore that the phone was used by his son, who was also a student of class 9.
“A woman police officer was asked to confront the class 9 student who spilled the beans. Later, another team traced the missing child from his house,” said the SHO.
The boy was handed over to his father after counselling.
The minor, however, ran out of luck once police started investigations into the case and traced his location to his friend’s house. The boy had used his friend’s phone to make a ransom call demanding Rs 5 lakh from his father.
Sitapur kotwali SHO TP Singh said that the boy studies in a government school and lives with his father as his mother had died when he was just one.
“When the student did not return home after school on Wednesday, his father and other relatives started a manhunt. Later, around 8.30 pm, they got a ransom call on WhatsApp for Rs 5 lakh. The amount had to be delivered at Khairabad near a mosque,” said Singh.
After the father informed the police, cops, cyber and SOG teams of the district got on the case.
“We assured the complainant about his son’s rescue and a team in civvies was attached with him while he was collecting the amount for the safe release of his son,” said the SHO.
By 11 pm, the police had zeroed in on the location of the mobile phone used for the ransom call. When the mobile phone owner, a footwear shop owner, was questioned, it came to fore that the phone was used by his son, who was also a student of class 9.
“A woman police officer was asked to confront the class 9 student who spilled the beans. Later, another team traced the missing child from his house,” said the SHO.
The boy was handed over to his father after counselling.
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