Rajasthan: College student fakes own abduction, demands Rs 2 lakh in ransom from parents
Kota (Rajasthan), Jul 4: A first-year college student allegedly faked his own abduction and demanded a ransom of Rs 2 lakh from his parents by sending them a picture of him tied up and gagged, police in Rajasthan's Kota said on Thursday.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Amrita Duhan said Jagpura resident Bhojraj Gochar lodged a missing person's report, claiming his son Suraj Gochar had left home on Tuesday and did not return.
A team under Deputy Superintendent of Police Manish Sharma was formed to rescue the teen, she said.
During investigations, Bhojraj Gochar told the police that he had received a ransom demand of Rs 2 lakh on WhatsApp. A photograph of Suraj Gochar with his hands tied and mouth gagged was also sent to him from his son's phone, Duhan said.
On the basis of the input and technical investigation, the police detained Suraj Gochar from the Jaipur Junction station on Wednesday evening, the SP said.
The 18-year-old came up with the plot after watching a television series to recoup the Rs 40,000 he had lost in an online game, she said.
The police said Suraj Gochar left home on the pretext of filling his admission form and reached Jaipur, where he took a picture of himself tied and gagged in a hostel room using the timer on his phone camera and sent it to his father.
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Minor student stabs teacher to death in coaching centre classroom in Assam
Guwahati (PTI): A teacher of a coaching centre was knifed to death allegedly by one of his students inside a classroom in Assam’s Sivsagar district on Saturday, a police officer said.
The student, who is a minor, has been taken to the local police station in Sivsagar town, he added.
It is claimed that the teacher had scolded the class 11 student earlier in the day over some issue.
“We reached the coaching centre on receiving information of a stabbing incident. According to preliminary information, a student stabbed his teacher. There is a lot of blood in the classroom. The knife was also found there,” the officer said.
He said the teacher was taken to the hospital in a critical condition, where he was declared dead.
The officer said the incident happened in the last period of the day, when other teachers had already left.
“We have picked up the student. We don’t know yet what led to the incident. We are in the process of collecting the CCTV footage,” the officer added.
A classmate of the accused claimed that the teacher had scolded him over some matter earlier in the day.
The accused had left school and returned later, and when he entered the classroom, the teacher accosted him again. The student then attacked the teacher with a knife, the classmate claimed.
