Hitesh Borse was lured with dreams of studying in the US but was kept captive while the instructor took money from his family
The Virar police is probing a shocking case in which a gym instructor who befriended his client, a builder in Virar, allegedly took Rs 1.11 crore for sending the builder’s son to the US for higher education and job opportunities, only to confine the youth for five years in various cities by keeping him drugged.
The youth was finally rescued last month after he managed to place a distress call to his father.
In 2011, the gym instructor Chandrashekhar Shetty, who worked at the Power Life Gym, befriended Dilip Borse, 53, a resident of Shiv Kutir Row house in Virar West and a successful builder in the region. Borse was lured by Shetty’s promises that he would take his son, Hitesh, now 29, to the US for further studies.
According to the FIR registered on January 18, Shetty initially took Hitesh to Kolkata, claiming that other students would join them there before proceeding to the US.
“When they reached Kolkata, the gym instructor took away the money and threatened my son saying he would be killed unless he kept his silence. My son was put in confinement, and was under constant watch by Shetty’s accomplices,” said Borse.
“Hitesh was later taken to Surat, Goa and Navi Mumbai. He was never kept at the same location for a long time, but Shetty made sure that my son spoke to us through Skype and messenger chats, but Hitesh was always given a script to speak,” said Borse.
“My son was drugged, abused and assaulted if he tried to escape. The drugs made him weak. Finally last month, we received a call from an unknown number. We could barely hear Hitesh, and when we tried to call back on the number, it was switched off. It was then that we approached the police and filed a complaint,” said Borse.
The Virar police tracked the number and found Hitesh confined in a dilapidated building in Navi Mumbai and brought him back home.
Yunus Shaikh, Police Inspector, Virar police station said, “We registered a case after receiving the complaint and booked Shetty under sections 420 (cheating), 328 (causing hurt by means of poison, etc), 344 (wrongful confinement for ten or more days), 365 (kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person), 368 (wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement, kidnapped or abducted person) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code”
“The complainant has said that his son was given food and bare essentials only to ensure that he was in a position to speak to the family when calls were placed from time to time,” said Shaikh.
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