Pune City police’s crime branch rescued a 35-year-old engineer from Tamil Nadu, who was allegedly confined and thrashed at a hotel following a financial dispute.
Police said the engineer had recently received a call for a job from a company and travelled to Mumbai on January 6 for the same.
However, he was thrashed by an individual and was forcibly brought to a hotel in Hadapsar on the Pune – Solapur Highway where he was illegally confined, following a financial dispute with the company’s manager over the purchase of approximately “3,000 US dollars and DT currency”.
On January 9, the engineer managed to call a family member in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu over the phone from the hotel. He told the family member that he had been kidnapped and confined to a hotel in Pune.
The family then informed the local police and, the information was passed on to Pune city police.
As per the directions of Deputy Commissioner of Police (crime) Nikhil Pingle, crime branch teams led by inspectors Vijay Kumbhar, Sandipan Pawar, Wahid Pathan, Yuvraj Hande and assistant inspector C B Berad launched a rigorous search operation.
Cops conducted checks at different locations in Phursungi, Shewalwadi, Kunjirwadi and finally rescued him from a spot on the Shikrapur – Ahilyanagar road on Friday.
A press release issued on Saturday stated that six persons were nabbed by the cops. They were identified as Mohammad Meherban (27) and Arjun Kumar (28) from Uttar Pradesh, Devendra Albhar (25) of Ahilyanagar, Ankit Adagale (25) of Mumbai, Priyank Rana (33) from Uttarakhand and Avinash Kadam (43) from Shikrapur in Pune district.
A first information report (FIR) was lodged against them at Hadapsar police station as per sections 127 (7), 115 (2), 351(2), 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Further police investigations were underway in the case.
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