India, Feb. 11 -- A chartered flight from Pune to Bangkok was asked to turn back as Shiv Sena MLA and former minister Tanaji Sawant claimed his son Rushiraj, 32, had been abducted on Monday. As it turned out, Sawant had raised an alarm apparently because he was very worried - his son had left home without letting his family know of the impending trip.

"We speak 10 to 15 times a day. He left Pune without telling us,'' said Sawant, a minister of state in the earlier Devendra Fadnavis ministry and health minister in the Eknath Shinde ministry. "We often convey to our family members where we are going. I was worried because he went without informing anyone in our family."

The false alarm, which had pressed various arms of the state machiner...