Youth stages kidnap drama to win fiancृe back

AHMEDABAD: A team of crime branch officials brought a youth, who had reportedly been abducted earlier, back to city on Thursday. Maulik Patel, 21 was found near Udaipur and confessed that he had staged the abduction to frame his ex-fiancée's lover.
Maulik, a resident of Luv-Kush Bungalows on Naroda-Nikol road had gone missing since Thursday afternoon. Naroda police station officials said that Patel had got engaged to Jinisha Patel of Krishnanagar for a year and a half.It was an arranged marriage and the engagement had been called off a fortnight ago with consent of both families.
"Maulik first called his uncle at 5 pm to tell him he had been kidnapped by unknown people, comprising two boys and a girl. He added that the kidnapping took place in a white Maruti Swift and they were headed for Rajasthan. Maulik kept calling at regular intervals to inform his father of their location. Worried, the parents informed the police. It was impossible to believe that Maulik managed to call his parents even with the kidnappers in the car. Still, we involved the city crime branch to track him," said C B Patel, inspector of Naroda police station.
Acting on Maulik's information, the police confirmed that he reached in Rajasthan via Shamlaji. At 11.30 pm, Maulik called his parents to say that he had managed to escape from his abductors when their car slowed down. The police sent a team to the spot near Pakhuna village and brought Maulik back.
"When he was interrogated by investigators, Maulik broke down and confessed that the abduction was a farce. He said that he got a second mobile connection to send threatening messages to himself. He had assumed that his fiance had broken the engagement because of another lover. Depressed by this, Maulik wanted to win her back by gaining her sympathy," Patel said.
Investigators said that Maulik, an MBA student, had planned to name the alleged lover as his abductor. But, he dropped the idea at the lastminute and did not reveal the identity of the kidnappers.