BHOPAL: Two people kidnapped a boy from Indore, bundled him in a vehicle to Bhopal, confined him in a flat here and sodomised and filmed him in the nude for four days. The minor was a model and aspiring actor.

The minor was rescued after he made a desperate call on 100 and told police he was locked in a house in Bhopal. Police traced the SOS call to Bima Kunj in Kolar area of the state capital and freed him from his captors.

The accused have been slapped under stringent sections of POCSO Act, and also booked for kidnapping, wrongful confinement and sodomy. A laptop and mobile of accused have been seized.

One of the accused, an MBA, has been nabbed while the other is on the run. Additional superintendent of police (crime) Shailendra Singh Chouhan, who spearheaded the rescue operation, said “The call was received on Saturday afternoon. We traced the caller’s location and number and called back the boy. He told me he is in flat, which is surrounded with multiple buildings, but had no idea of the location. Eight teams were formed to track him.”

After searching 17 buildings, police zeroed in on the flat in which the boy was confined. The house was identified on the basis of colour of its main door as told by the boy.

As pre-planned, police knocked five times to signal the boy about their presence. The minor responded as advised by police. The flat was locked from outside. Police kept vigil and waited in ambush for the accused. A man finally arrived at night.

Police nabbed him and seized keys of the flat. The house was later opened and the boy was rescued. Accused, Dinesh Gupta, 31, an MBA, who works in a company, resides in the same flat on rent.

The boy said he had never met him before the abduction. The accused would return at night, sodomise him and leave in the morning after locking him from outside. The boy said the goons would threaten him that they would make public his obscene videos if he made raised a hue and cry, police said.

Accused, Dinesh Gupta is a native of Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh. Police said they are verifying his criminal record. The flat he took on rent in Kolar belongs to a woman LIC agent.

The boy’s parents were contacted. They came to Bhopal and minor was handed over to them.

No balance in phone, but call to 100 was lifeline:

The 17-year-old boy is a class 12 student and resident of Dhar. He had come to Indore for an audition for Balaji Films on September 30. He was heading towards bus stand when he was kidnapped near Sayaji Hotel, Indore.

He told police he was walking when his captors sprayed a chemical on his face and he suffered a blackout. He has no idea what happened after that. He had his mobile phone with him, but there was no balance in it. When he regained consciousness, he found himself in Bhopal’s hellhole flat. As the ordeal continued, he suddenly realised that he could call 100 even he had no balance in his phone. That’s how police were tipped off that led to his rescue.