pune a city police team on tuesday afternoon traced prominent twowheeler dealer and businessman gautam pashankar 65 to a hotel in jaipur 34 days after he went missing from near his house off ganeshkhind road on october 21deputy commissioner of police crime bachchan singh told toi working on specific leads that pashankar had travelled out of maharashtra our unit1 team headed by inspector sunil takawale and subinspector sanjay gaikwad tracked him at hotel chandragupta in jaipur around 3pm today tuesday we have informed his familysingh said our team along with pashankar is expected to return to pune on wednesday all covid19 protocols that the state government has introduced for travellers coming to the city from other parts of the country would be followed singh said pashankar told our team on tuesday evening that he kept travelling from one city to another all these days without any purpose after leaving pune he was carrying substantial cash and spent a day or two in hotels at each of the cities he visitedthe dcp said from pune he first reached kolhapur by hiring a cab he then took a bus to bengaluru spent a day or two there before taking a train to maduraifrom there he took trains to hyderabad kolkata and to delhi he checked into the jaipur hotel on november 20 the dcp added pashankar the chairman of pashankar auto a twowheeler dealership firm had left behind a note stating that nobody should be blamed for his actionhe wrote that he had been suffering business losses for the past twothree years and his children were suffering because of his decisionthe pune police had launched an extensive search for pashankar who also has interests in fuel stations and real estate police teams had gone to kolhapur the konkan region and goapashankars son kapil told toi that he got a call from the crime branch officers giving him the good news i have not spoken to him father yet but shall speak soon i saw his photo along with the policemen circulating on social media his health appears to have deteriorated a bit he is a heart patient and i am a bit worried about his health we are waiting for his arrival herekapil said his family had no links with jaipur and he had no idea why his father went theregautam pashankar had started with a poultry business in the early 1980s before buying fuel stations and getting into the real estate business he owns a chain of twowheeler showrooms and had the fourwheeler dealership for gm and audi cars