LUCKNOW: A 35-year-old engineer named Naman Kumar allegedly staged his own kidnapping to extort money from his family after he lost money in cryptocurrency. The man, who works for an IT company, allegedly 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 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.
