Woman arrested for faking her own kidnapping
<p dir="ltr">A US woman has been arrested in Delhi, India, for allegedly staging her own kidnapping.</p>
<p dir="ltr">According to police, the 27-year-old faked her abduction to “blackmail” her parents into sending her more money after her funds ran out.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Having arrived in India on May 3, the woman phoned her mother on July 7 and said she was being assaulted by a man, per <em>NDTV</em>.</p>
<p dir="ltr">After her family made a complaint to the US Embassy, which was forwarded on to police in Delhi, they began to investigate her whereabouts.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Having traced the IP address the woman used to send an email to the American Citizen services and make a video call to her mother, police traced and arrested a 31-year-old Nigerian man, the <em>Indian Express</em> reported.</p>
<p dir="ltr">During his interrogation, the man said the woman was staying in an apartment in Noida, on Delhi’s outskirts.</p>
<p dir="ltr">“After her rescue, it was revealed that she had staged the incident to blackmail her parents,” Amrutha Guguloth, New Delhi’s deputy commissioner of police, told the <em>Indian Express</em>.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Police said she met the man through Facebook and had been staying with him since she arrived in May.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Having discovered that both the woman’s visa and the man’s passport had expired, police said they would take action against the pair for staying in India without valid documents.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Getty Images</em></p>
