Mumbai:
One of the 25 people from Maharashtra trapped by international cyber mafia in Myanmar, has been able to contact his family and given graphic details of the torture and brutality they face every day. Kaustubh Shejwal, a 30-year-old resident of Mangalmurti Nagar in the suburbs of Nashik, has been held captive in Myanmar since April. His family is now running from pillar to post to secure the release of the captives.
Kaustubh, who has studied up to Class 12, left home on April 25. A friend had promised to help him secure a call center job in Thailand capital Bangkok. Lured by the promise of a monthly salary of Rs 70,000, Kaustubh had decided to go to Bangkok.
But instead, he was taken to Myanmar by unidentified people and held captive.
“We are forced to work 18 hours a day. We are served food that even rats and cockroaches wouldn’t eat,” he had managed to convey to his family in a phone call.
He said if they refuse to work, they are tied up in a room and subjected to electric shocks. Women trapped there are also being subjected to severe torture.
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