A prominent businessmans son was allegedly abducted while he was on his way to Delhi from Pilibhit on Thursday. The Pilibhit police registered a case of kidnapping on Saturday following a complaint by the victims father about receiving a ransom call on Friday. The Pilibhit Superintendent of Police (SP),Prem Kumar Gautam,however,said it appears the youth, has fabricated the story of kidnapping to get money from his father and the investigating team would soon find him. Gautam said Sunil Kumar Srivastava,a native of Pooranpur locality in Pilibhit and a prominent trader of the medicine market in the same area,informed the police about receiving a call from his son ¿ Mayank (23) ¿ on Friday. Srivastava said his son called him up from his mobile phone saying he had been kidnapped by a gang and they would kill him if a ransom of Rs 2 lakh was not paid within two days. According to Srivastava,Mayank told him that he was kidnapped between Bareilly and Moradabad stations and is kept in a room at Rampur district. The SP said they suspected the veracity of the incident after they retrieved the details of Mayanks mobile phone. According to phone records,the call to his father was made from Delhi. Mayank is pursuing his Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine & Surgery (BAMS) course from a college in Bangalore and had left for Bangalore on Thursday morning,the SP added. Gautam said the investigation also revealed that Mayank was not happy with the money he was getting for his monthly expenses. The police have got concrete clues about Mayanks whereabouts and he would be traced soon,he added.
