Mumbai: Kidnapped NCP student leader's two-hour ordeal

Furkan Shaikh will now think twice before helping out a friend The 26yearold joint secretary of NCPrsquos student wing in Mumbai was allegedly abducted by four youths from a birthday party on Wednesday night driven around Khar and Santacruz for two hours and assaulted in the car mdash all to extract money from him to reimburse a friend for her legal proceedingsAlso Read Teens assault cop smash window of police van in DadarAt the birthday party of an NCP leader in Khar the four youths approach Furkan Sheikh IllustrationUday MohiteShaikh managed to jump out at a police nakabandi The police arrested three of the alleged kidnappers and seized the luxury car they used as a getaway vehicleThey ask him out for a smoke Sheikh agrees and steps out with themThe abductors allegedly wanted him to reimburse an emittered mutual friendrsquos charges towards payment of an advocatersquos fees of Rs 40000Once outside the four men ask him to join them for a drive in a luxury car Again he agreesThe NCP leader had introduced the friend Forum to the advocate to settle a home loan case but the legal proceedings didnrsquot go as per her expectations The four youths held Shaikh responsible for their friendrsquos financial loss and demanded that he repay her legal feesRead Story Shopkeeper doused in hot oil during fight over headlightsInside the car he is slapped threatened and bullied to repay the fee of Rs 40000 their friend had to shell out to pay an advocate referred by Shaikh After one of the men gets off near Poddar College in Santacruz the others drive Shaikh around for quite a while repeating their threats and demanding immediate paymentThreatened assaultedIt all began at the birthday celebrations of an NCP leader in Khar around 10 pm on Wednesday The four youths mdash Saif Khatri 22 Kais Bhati 24 Shahnawaz Khan 19 and Afrid Kalwatkar 22 mdash called Shaikh out for a smoke Once outside they asked him to join them for a drive in a Volkswagen carTwo hours later the car nears a police nakabandi near the Vakola flyover Shaikh escapes as the car slows down near the barricades The police block the vehicle and catch the abductors They are detained and taken to the police stationAfter driving around for a bit they stopped near Poddar College in Santacruz West and bullied him When a clueless Shaikh demanded an explanation the men told him categorically that they held him responsible for their friendrsquos financial mess They demanded that he call up his friends and family and arrange for the cash immediately Around this time Kalwatkar left the spot But the others drove Shaikh back to Khar and even allegedly slapped him two to three times to browbeat him into paying upFrom top Afrid Kalwatkar Saif Khatri Kais Bhati and Furkan Sheikh escaped from their clutches at a police nakabandiRescued at nakabandildquoWhen the car heading for Kalina neared the Vakola flyover I spotted a police nakabandi The men had to slow down and I grabbed this chance to jump out The police then blocked the car and caught the menrdquo revealed Shaikh Bandra residentThe Vakola police detained the three following which the case was transferred to the Khar police station Khatri Bhati and Khan were then arrested under sections 365 kidnapping 323 voluntarily causing hurt 506 criminal intimidation and 34 common intention of the IPC said Ramchandra Jadhav senior Khar police inspector