RANCHI: A child was abducted after cheating her mother in the name of cricketer M S Dhoni. The incident happened near Ranchi. Madhu Devi’s one and a half year old child was abducted by a strange man and a woman. The child was abducted after misleading them in the name of cash being distributed to the poor by Dhoni.

Madhu Devi came to buy things with her two children. A woman and a man on a bike approached her at this time. They then asked her whether she knew that cricketer Dhoni is giving money to the poor to build houses. When she said that she did not know, they told her that financial assistance is being distributed at a nearby place and she can easily go and get it. They also promised to drop Madhu and one of her children to the aid distribution site. Believing their words, she made her elder child sit in an eatery shop there and then went with them.

When reached near the electricity office, they stopped the bike saying that this is where the help is being distributed. When Madhu Devi got down and turned her attention to the office, the woman and the man fled in their bike with the child. People hearing Madhu's screams searched the whole place but could not find them. The police have started an investigation on her complaint.