KOLKATA: Acting on her daughter’s complaint that her boyfriend was cheating on her, a father kidnapped the boy — a Class XI students of a reputable school — and confined him to one of his flats for several hours. He then warned the boy’s mother to ask her son to behave. When the mother finally managed to speak to her son, he told her how he had been assaulted and threatened. Police finally rescued the minor and arrested the girl’s father and charged him with kidnapping and assault.The incident was reported from the Regent Park area though the kidnapping actually took place close to Menoka cinema hall on Monday. “The girl had reached the 17-year-old boy’s school and pursued him up to the cinema hall. The girl claimed that he was ditching her for another girl. The boy denied having any relationship with the girl at all. It was then that the girl burst out crying, attracting the attention of passers-by,” claimed a senior police officer.One of the locals then called up the girl’s father and asked him to come and pick up his daughter. The father arrived quickly in his car but then did the unthinkable – he forcefully pushed the boy inside his car along with his daughter and drove down to his flat in the Regent Park area. Here, the boy was confined to a room and beaten up.The girl’s father eventually called up the boy’s mother to come from Howrah (where she was located around that time) to KM Naskar Road at Regent Park to reach a settlement and said if she failed to do as told, he will further beat up her son inside a local club with help from locals.The shocked woman initially tried to call up her son on his mobile but the calls went unanswered. The phone was finally picked up by the accused, who shared his address.“The woman came directly to the Regent Park police station. We have arrested the girl’s father. We are recording the statements of the two minors and the boy’s mother. Since this is not kidnapping for ransom, we are planning not to oppose bail,” said an investigating officer from the south suburban police.