Moneylender kidnaps Ahmedabad man, demands Rs 3 lakh

Ahmedabad: A man from the Ghodasar area of the city on Wednesday filed a complaint with Anandnagar police alleging that a moneylender kidnapped him from Prahladnagar and illegally confined him, demanding the Rs 3 lakh he had lent the complainant six months ago.

In his FIR, Mitesh Bhavsar, 30, who works for a firm in Satellite and lives at Smruti Darshan Society in Ghodasar, stated that he was introduced to the moneylender, Ishwar Vaghela, a year and a half ago by a common friend named Shekhar Patel.

Bhavsar said he had borrowed Rs 3 lakh from Vaghela and had given him signed cheques. After that, Bhavsar lost his job and has been unemployed for six months.

On Wednesday afternoon, when Bhavsar was home in Ghodasar, he got a call from Patel who told him that Vaghela wanted to meet him at a hotel in Prahladnagar. When Bhavsar went there, Vaghela demanded his money, to which Bhavsar told him he did not have any.

After a few minutes of arguments, Vaghela asked Bhavsar to have tea with him at another place. Unaware of his intentions, Bhavsar sat in his car and Vaghela took him to a vacant flat in the Dudheshwar area.

Vaghela then threatened to confine Bhavsar in the flat until he got his money. The then told Bhavsar to call his relatives and arrange for the money. Bhavsar made the first call to his friend R K Patel, asking for money. Bhavsar’s friend acted wisely and called the police control room. After a while a team of Anandnagar police reached the spot and rescued Bhavsar.

Anandnagar police later booked Vaghela for kidnapping and began an investigation.