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Man fakes 'kid'napping on FB, sends Mumbai cops on wild goose chase

User Zain Shaikh posted on Facebook that his nephew was abducted and later killed, but cops verify that no such incident occurred in Mumbai; hunt on to find Shaikh and determine motive behind post

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Man fakes 'kid'napping on FB, sends Mumbai cops on wild goose chase

Man fakes 'kid'napping on FB, sends Mumbai cops on wild goose chase

Here's a social media head-scratcher. In a case that is still befuddling authorities while serving as a cautionary tale for blind social media activism, a man on Saturday posted details about his young nephew being kidnapped and later killed, only to later delete all traces of it when the police got involved.

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