

Updated On: 22 December, 2023 06:53 AM IST | Mumbai | Shirish Vaktania
Says court procedure is interminable, he will get bail easily; cops say they are with victims

Hitesh Rathod, who had been running Yash Caterers for 25 years
Caterer Hitesh Rathod, who went off the radar on Dec 11 after leaving clients in the lurch, has been approaching them trying to convince them not to register FIRs against him. He says they wouldn’t get their money back if he was jailed. Police sources told mid-day that Rathod was not in Surat, but Nashik, a few days ago and he was misguiding the families who had booked his services. It is suspected that Rathod visited the Shirdi Saibaba Temple in Nashik.
An individual who paid Rathod Rs 10 lakh to cater for her daughter’s wedding said, “Rathod is with a Thane-based lawyer whom he has hired. The latter called me and Rathod was on another line. The caterer told me not to register an FIR against him. He said, if we did so, he’d be in jail and we would never our money back. Rathod also claimed that the legal process was interminable and he would get bail easily.”