DEORIA (UP), Feb. 2 -- Three youths allegedly gained a boy's trust here and swindled jewellery worth Rs 85 lakh from him by feeding him momo in exchange, police said on Monday.

An FIR was lodged in Rampur Karkhana police station in Uttar Pradesh's Deoria after the boy's father alleged that the three youth who run a momo stall at Dumri Chauraha on the Deoria-Kasya road fled with jewellery belonging to his family worth Rs 85 lakh, they said.

The matter came to light when the boy's sister asked for her jewellery. When they opened the almirah, all the ornaments were missing. To the shocked family members, the class 7 student said that he had given the jewellery away in exchange for momo.

Rampur Karkhana SHO Devendra Kumar Singh said a case h...