A 27-year-old American woman has been arrested by the Police in India’s national capital Delhi for allegedly staging her own kidnapping.
According to the police, the woman faked her abduction to “blackmail” her parents into sending money after she ran out of cash.
It was reported that the woman had reached India on 3 May. She phoned her mother on 7 July and said she was being assaulted by a man.
Reports said Police in Delhi began investigating her whereabouts after the US Embassy forwarded a complaint from her family to them.
It was stated that they traced the IP addresses from which the woman had sent an email to American Citizen services and made a video call to her mother.
In view of this, they traced and arrested a 31-year-old man from Nigeria, who said during interrogation that the woman was staying in an apartment in Noida, on the outskirts of Delhi.
Speaking with newsmen, New Delhi’s deputy commissioner of police, AmruthaGuguloth, said “After her rescue, it was revealed that she had staged the incident to blackmail her parents”.
Delineating on the development, the Police said the woman, who is from Washington DC, had met the man through Facebook and had been staying with him since she arrived in India.
The police, while noting it was found that the woman’s visa and man’s passport had expired, said they would take action against the two for staying in India without valid documents.
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