Mumbai(PTI): The body of a 58-year-old motivational speaker from Bengaluru, who had been missing since October 15, was found in a 1200 feet deep gorge at Matheran hill station in Maharashtra's Raigad district, a police official said on Monday.

Professor Shanmuga S Balasubramaniam, a resident of Belapur in the Karnataka capital, had come to stay in Matheran between October 13 and 17 after making online reservations at a hotel, the official said.

"On October 15, he went out of the hotel and went missing, following which its management alerted police. A missing person case was registered and a search was mounted. His body was found in a 1200 feet deep gorge near Eco Point on Sunday. The body was retrieved by 17 members of a private rescue team," he added.

"His elder brother has claimed the

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