Lucknow, July 4 : A 25-year-old engineer allegedly staged his own kidnapping to extort money from his family after suffering losses in crypto-trading.

According to police, they received a complaint from the man’s family around 2 pm on Monday. Naman's mother complained that her son had been kidnapped from near KGMU and that they received multiple extortion calls and messages for Rs 20 lakh from his phone.
Additional DCP West, Chiranjeev Nath Sinha said, “We went through the messages and calls. The caller was trying to extort them of Rs 20 lakh and using WhatsApp to communicate. The police team went to the family’s house and analysed multiple CCTV cameras. We found that the man was repeatedly saying that your son will face the same fate of ‘Viren’ who was kidnapped long ago in Rohtas district of Bihar and never returned," said Sinha.
Sinha added that we got to know here that the person who has been kidnapped is an acquaintance of the family or a near one as he knows that the family hailed from Bihar.