Shocking Kidnapping, Electric Shock Torture, and Unnatural Abuse Unearthed in Pune’s Kharadi and Chandan Nagar: Police Register FIR
PUNE: In an incident of kidnapping, physical brutality, and extreme sexual degradation, a 25-year-old cab driver was allegedly abducted, electrocuted, forced into unnatural acts, and held hostage for nearly two weeks across Pune and Latur before escaping, according to a First Information Report (FIR) registered on Monday.
The victim, identified as Omkar Suryakant Gosavi (25), a resident of Awhalwadi near Wagholi who drives a corporate cab ferrying e-commerce employees, lodged a formal statement detailing an ordeal that began on the evening of October 13, 2026.
The Abduction from Chandan Nagar
According to the FIR, the victim had visited the rented room of his friend, Samarth Dnyanoba Jaybhaye, located at a paying guest accommodation in Sonai Park, Chandan Nagar, around 6:30 PM to change his work uniform. Samarth was not present, but his roommate, Prathamesh Venkatrao Patil (25), was in the room.
Around 7:00 PM, an acquaintance named Shubham Patil (alias “Shubham Hawa”), Ashish Andhare, and two unidentified accomplices allegedly barged into the room demanding to know Samarth’s whereabouts. The accused snatched Gosavi’s car keys and forcibly took both Gosavi and Prathamesh on three two-wheelers to a third-floor flat near Vatsalya Hospital in Kharadi.
Systematic Torture, Electric Shocks, and Humiliation
The complaint states that inside the Kharadi apartment, the accused launched a violent assault using an iron clothes-drying rack, striking the victims repeatedly across their heads and bodies, before hitting them with a brick.
When the victims resisted demands to undress, one of the unidentified assailants allegedly administered electric shocks using an exposed live wire. Forced to strip completely out of sheer terror, both young men were subjected to extreme humiliation: they were coerced to sit on empty beer bottles, forced into performing reciprocal unnatural acts, and photographed in compromised positions. The assailants threatened to leak the photographs across social media and murder Gosavi’s father if they approached law enforcement.
Forced Confinement Across Pune and Latur
Following the torture, the accused drove the victims to a crematorium in Kharadi village, forced them to consume liquor, and destroyed the GPS tracking unit installed in Gosavi’s assigned vehicle (Hyundai Aura, MH12ZE8359).
The victims were then driven overnight to an agricultural field near Hotel Jalpari in a village in Latur, reaching at 7:00 AM on October 14. After meeting an accomplice identified as Jadhav, the accused transported them back to a Zolo PG accommodation in Kharadi by 8:00 PM that night.
The following day, October 15, the prime accused contacted Gosavi’s cab supervisor, directing him to retrieve the vehicle parked with its key atop the front tire. Gosavi and Prathamesh were subsequently kept locked inside a separate PG facility for eight consecutive days until the visible swellings and assault wounds on their faces and bodies began to heal.
Escape at a Mumbai Mall
On the afternoon of October 24, the accused took both victims to Mumbai in an Ola cab, picking up another associate near Baner along the way. Upon arriving at City Centre Mall in Mumbai, the accused ordered Gosavi and Prathamesh inside an iPhone store while staying outside.
Inside the store, Prathamesh fled the scene carrying Gosavi’s mobile phone. Left stranded and visibly distressed, Gosavi narrated the harrowing account to the store manager, who contacted Gosavi’s father and provided him travel funds to return safely. Gosavi arrived at the Kharadi Bypass around 5:00 AM on October 25. Three days later, a cab driver returned his phone to his father.
FIR Registered Under Applicable Laws
Stating that deep psychological trauma and fear of the explicit photos being circulated prevented him from coming forward earlier, Gosavi approached the police on November 9, 2026, to formally press charges.
A case has been registered based on the victim’s statement against Shubham Patil alias Shubham Hawa, Ashish Andhare, and their associates for unlawful assembly, abduction, wrongful confinement, extortion, criminal intimidation, causing hurt with weapons, and related offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Further investigation is underway.