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TAMBARAM : An 18-year-old youth of Tambaram was arrested on charges of staging a drama claiming he was kidnapped for a ransom. He was later remanded to judicial custody. The Selaiyur police arrested Dilip Kumar Singh, son of a Grade-I Station Master of Tambaram Railway Station under sections 384 and 387 of the Indian Penal Code. The sections pertain to extortion by threat and punishment for the crime. The youth was reportedly upset that he was pulled by his family members for his poor performance in the Plus-Two examinations. (He had failed in the Chemistry paper in three successive attempts.) On Tuesday, he left his home on Rose Raja Avenue in Irumbuliyur, East Tambaram, for Saidapet, to visit a software training centre. Later, his relatives received a telephone call and heard a male voice demanding a ransom of Rs. five lakh for the release of the youth. G. Durairaj, Joint Commissioner of Police (South Zone), said the telephone call was traced to a public call office in T.Nagar. The youth's relatives received the call at 8.15 p.m. and the police control room informed over wireless about the call, at 9.50 p.m. A police team went to the PCO and later managed to locate its owner in a movie hall. It got some clues about persons who had visited the PCO for making calls. Finally, the youth was traced at the room of a lift operator in a four-storey showroom of a consumer durable shop on G. N. Chetty Road early on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the youth — who had switched off his mobile phone for a long time — sent an SMS and gave missed calls to one his friends, which only strengthened the police's suspicions that he was staging the kidnap drama. When police picked him up from the showroom, he narrated the events and also confessed that it was he, who had called up his relatives over phone, informing about his `own kidnap' episode. Relatives, neighbours and police too breathed a sigh of relief when they came to know that he was on his way home as all of them were on tenterhooks in the light of a recent gruesome incident of a boy being killed after being kidnapped.
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