India, April 11 -- A 22-year-old resident of Nalasopara has been arrested for allegedly staging his own kidnapping in connivance with two friends, hoping to extort money from his family to start a printing business.

The Achole police nabbed the 22-year-old unemployed youth, Rohan Tiwari, and his two friends - Kaushal Dubey, 21, and Nikhil Singh, 22 - within 11 hours of his alleged kidnapping. Tiwari then confessed to staging the incident, saying his family would have refused to invest seed money in the business.

According to the police, Tiwari's family residing in Nalosapara received a video on Tuesday night, in which he was tied up at an unknown place and being assaulted by two kidnappers.

"While Tiwari was bleeding profusely in the v...