The police have arrested both the accused (Representational)
Mumbai:
A driver and his relative were arrested from Mumbai's suburban Andheri for allegedly staging the kidnapping of a builder's two children, the police said on Wednesday. The driver worked for the builder and staged the kidnapping in an attempt to extort Rs 1 crore, they added.
During the interrogation, the driver admitted that he had conspired to kidnap the twins to get money for his daughter's marriage, an official said.
"The incident came to light when the father of the children, a real estate developer, approached the police on Monday evening with the complaint that his two kids had been kidnapped," he said.