UP man kidnaps boy to arrange UPSC funds, held

PATNA: In a bizarre incident, a 25-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria kidnapped an eight-year-old boy from his home in Bihar’s Gopalganj district for ransom to fund his UPSC exam preparations.
Police rescued the boy safely within 48 hours and arrested the accused.
The boy’s mother, Jeevan Jyoti Devi, said one Amit Kumar entered her house in Majirwan Kalan village on Thursday, seeking shelter from the rain.She offered him a chair to sit. “As soon as I went inside, the man fled with my child. When we couldn’t find him, I lodged a police complaint,” Devi told reporters on Sunday.