AURANGABAD: A 35-year-old man, suffering from hearing and speech impairment, was rescued from a
hotel in
Maharashtra's
Osmanabad district, where he was kept chained to a pillar for three months,
police said on Thursday.
The police carried out the
rescue at a hotel in Naldurg town of the district on Tuesday night and have arrested the owner of the establishment, an official said.
"We received information that a
deaf and
mute man had been kept chained to a
wooden pillar inside a room at a hotel for the last three months.
We laid a trap and rescued the man," assistant police inspector Jagdish Raut said.
While the identity of the victim and the reason for the confinement is yet to be ascertained, a case has been registered against hotel owner Motilal Tamboli under section 344 (
wrongful confinement) of the
IPC, the official said.
Experts have been called in to communicate with the victim, who has undergone a medical check-up.