A 12-year-old boy was detained on Thursday by police from Basibaji village here five days after he staged his own abduction to extract ransom from his mother.Ajay Kumar, a Class VII student, fled from his Medical Colony area home with the help of two friends and reached the village from where he called his mother Manju Devi pretending to be his own kidnapper and demanding Rs two lakh for his own release, SSP Alok Kumar told reporters.The boy's mother, a Class IV railway employee, filed a complaint with the police on July 2 about her son's kidnapping following which a police team, set up to rescue the boy, traced the extortion call to Basibaji village, Kumar said.

The police raided the village and found the boy, who revealed during interrogation that he had fled from home with the help of his two friends as he did not want to continue his studies. He wanted to go to Surat to work in a diamond factory for which he needed money, the SSP said.Police also arrested the two friends for colluding with Kumar in the abduction drama.