Overview

• Dilip Khedkar remains absconding after the September 13 incident on the Mulund–Airoli Road, according to police and court filings.
• Investigators say a truck helper was forced into the Khedkars' SUV and taken to the family's Pune bungalow before being traced and rescued.
• The Rabale police registered a kidnapping case under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, including section 137, based on the truck owner's complaint.
• Driver-cum-bodyguard Praful Salunkhe has been arrested, while Manorama Khedkar holds interim pre-arrest protection and is accused of non-cooperation.
• Police told the court the DVR from the bungalow vanished and the SUV and the victim's phone were hidden, and they described obstruction at the house during a multi-district probe.