Alcoholic husband Jaffar Maniar couldn’t bear to see his wife leave him and took the extreme step of kidnapping his nine-year-old brother-in-law, Sameer Khan, as leverage to lure his wife to return home. Maniar kidnapped Sameer from his Mulund home on Friday but afraid of getting caught by the cops, he dropped him off at his residence the very next day.

According to police officials, the accused had a big tiff with his wife, Shabnam, on Thursday following which his wife left his Ghansoli residence and went to her parents’ house.