It's been a month since businessman Harshad Thakkar went missing from his office in Dadar, and the police still have no clue about his whereabouts. The only lead they have is a call to his spiritual guru on the day of his disappearance — October 2. Depressed over financial losses, Thakkar had said he was going to visit his guru in Rajasthan. Thakkar, 42, chairman and managing director of lingerie company Ashapura Intimates Fashion, had been battling plummeting share prices in the stock market since September, which led to heavy losses for the company and its investors.

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One of these investors was his guru, identified by the police solely as 'Sharmaji'. On October 25, a team from Dadar police went to Jodhpur to record the guru's statement, in which he claimed that Thakkar had indeed spoken to him on the evening of October 2 and said he was coming to Rajasthan. However, according to guru Sharma, Thakkar never made it to the ashram.