A Pakistani businessman has alleged that Rawat police kidnapped him and took him to a private torture cell where he was kept illegally for 40 days.

The man was recovered from a Rawalpindi house on Wednesday.

The victim, after getting freedom from police custody, told the media as quoted by The News International that four captors kidnapped him from his house and confined him in a house in a private housing society and tortured him inhumanly, adding that they got his valuable property worth over Rs 60 million on gunpoint transferred in their name.

After producing him before the court of law, the police implicated him in heinous crimes to take his custody, the newspaper reported.