A desire to earn easy money led two jobless youngsters to target and kidnap a child from a posh society, but fortunately they were arrested within nine hours of the crime.

The incident took place in Pimpri-Chinchwad at Queenstown Society. Police said the accused, Nitin Satyavan Gajarmal, 25 and Jitendra Papuram Banjara, 21, who worked in a mall, are both jobless. However, Banjara sometimes worked as an usher in cinema theatres. He once worked as a delivery boy and had visited the society then. Police said the friends decided to kidnap a child from the society, assuming well-to-do people stay there, to fund a restaurant they wanted to start.