India, May 9 -- Trimbak Ghorpade, 59, a resident of Pathari village, in Parbhani district, registered an FIR at the Shirsala (Beed district) police station on April 23, alleging abduction, illegal confinement and assault for over a month - between March 10 and April 18 -- at the hands of a contractor and his accomplices. Ghorpade had inked a contract with Vinayak Munde -- a transporter and contractor attached with sugar factories in Karnataka -- a resident of Dharur in Beed district, last year to supply 16 cane cutters to a sugar factory in the neighbouring state, on an agreement of Rs.14 lakh. Part of the money was paid in instalments until February when the crushing season ended; but when Ghorpade approached Munde for the remaining sum,...