JHANSI: A 62-year-old doctor from Jhansi, who had gone missing on Friday morning, was found in Morena, Madhya Pradesh, where he was chained and dumped in the fields by kidnappers.
The doctor lay in the open through the cold night and then gathered courage and crawled for over a kilometre till he reached the main road and sought help from a passerby in unshackling him.
Dr R K Gurbakshani, a physician who lives in Sipree Bazar area of Jhansi had gone on morning walk on Friday as usual, but did not return home. His family members got anxious and informed the police. A case of kidnapping was lodged under Section 365 IPC and police launched a hunt by setting up two teams.
Police started investigation and saw him walking towards the highway in CCTV footage, but failed to get further leads about his whereabouts till late night.
On Saturday morning, police got a call from the Civil Lines police station in Morena, MP, informing that Dr Gurbakshani was there. A police team and his relatives rushed to bring him back.
Dr Gurbakshani revealed that three men had kidnapped him at gunpoint and bundled him inside a car saying they needed him to treat someone and assured to release him later. They travelled the whole day along highways, roads and villages. Later, he was shifted on a motorcycle and then made to walk.
In the late evening, the kidnappers took him to a lonely farm field, tied him up using iron chains and locks, dumped him there and left.
After lying in the open for almost the entire night and the kidnappers not returning, the doctor mustered courage and crawled for over a kilometre till the main road and sought help from a passerby in unshackling him.
Soon, he saw a policeman coming and told him about the incident. A PRV team arrived and took him to hospital and informed Jhansi police.
Dr Gurbakshani told reporters three men kidnapped him from Jhansi saying he is being taken for treating someone, but he later overheard them talking about making a ransom call on Saturday.
SSP Jhansi, Dinesh Kumar P, said, “We are probing all the clues minutely and trying to identify the kidnappers. The victim is in a deep state of shock and so we have asked him to rest. We will talk to him once he becomes normal to collect more details.”