New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- In Uttar Pradesh's Deoria district, three crooks reportedly manipulated a young boy's confidence to embezzle jewellery valued at Rs.85 lakh by providing him with momos, police said on Monday.

A formal complaint was filed at the Rampur Karkhana police station in Deoria after the boy's father claimed that three suspects operating a roadside momo stall at Dumri Chauraha vanished with his family's high-value ornaments.

The incident surfaced when the boy's sister searched for her belongings, only to find the storage unit completely empty. The seventh-grade student eventually confessed to his stunned relatives that he had surrendered the jewellery in exchange for the snacks.

Station House Officer Devendra Kumar Singh con...