Ahmedabad: Patel quota agitation leader Hardik Patel surfaced on Wednesday after his mysterious disappearance on Tuesday and claimed he was abducted, hours after the Gujarat High Court in a dramatic post-midnight hearing directed the state government to locate him.

Adding to the mystery after the police said he has gone 'missing', Hardik claimed he had been 'abducted' by some unknown people with weapons and that he was threatened to abandon his agitation which has thrown a challenge to the BJP government in the state, failing which he would be eliminated.