A 40-year-old man from Palghar district in Maharashtra has been booked for cooking up a story of her daughter's kidnapping after a quarrel with his wife, police said on Sunday.

The accused, Dilip Shinde, a resident of Manor taluka,informed the police on June 26 that while he was walking in Tandulwadi Ghat area, some unidentified persons kidnapped his six-year-old daughter and fled in a car, police spokesman Hemant Katkar said.