Rudrapur, April 10 -- A 26-year-old man from Punjab, Rohit Kumar, who had come to visit his maternal uncle in Gadarpur in Uttarakhand's US Nagar district, has allegedly been confined in Ethiopia after being sent abroad through an illegal "donkey route" by agents promising him a job in South Korea, officials said. According to police, the miscreants demanded a ransom of Rs.50 lakh for his release and threatened to chop off his ears if the amount was not paid. The victim's maternal uncle, Rajkumar, approached police on Tuesday along with former BJP MLA Rajkumar Thukral and met SSP Udham Singh Nagar, Ajay Ganpati. "We have registered an FIR against an agent and four of his associates in Gadarpur after the complainant produced phone call record...