``My kidnapping was a case of mistaken identity,'' he told newsmen at the lawns of his South Calcutta residence this evening.

Ganguly, who said he took a taxi from the Howrah station to his residence this morning, could neither specify the train he arrived in nor from where he had boarded it. ``I don't even know where I was held captive,'' a visibly shaken Ganguly said in a broken voice.

The Deputy Commissioner of Calcutta Police (I) detective department, Narayan Ghosh, said that cross examination of the Exide chairman would continue.

Recounting his experience, Ganguly said that he was abducted on April two from Penn Road adjacent to his New Road residence during his customary morning walk.

``As I was entering Penn Road, I saw from a distance two men apparently fixing the front flat tyre of a car. As I walked on and wentnearer, these men jumped on me, gagged me and hit me wildly. They then pointed a gun on my head and dragged me inside and made me lie down on the rear seat,'' he said. As the car then sped on, three men, who were waiting inside the vehicle ``sat'' over him and prevented him from raising his head, Ganguly said. ``Though I was bleeding profusely at that moment I was not allowed to sit up,'' Ganguly said.

He said it was after about ``six or eight or even ten hours drive'' that he was shifted to a house completely blindfolded and kept under a 24 hour watch by armed guards. After sometime they also offered me a bath and some food, Ganguly said.

On the same evening, the Exide India chairman said he was again blindfolded and taken to a nearby house where a senior member of the gang demanded Rs two crore as ransom for his release.'' ``I told my questioner that even if my family was sold, they would not get more than rupees two lakh. At this, the man said that the `boss' would be very angry,'' Ganguly said.

Theman then wanted to know whom in the Ganguly family they could contact. Ganguly gave the telephone numbers of his wife, daughter and brother.

He was then given food and asked to take rest. ``I had to lie down on the floor. It had no electricity and was full of mosquitoes. An armed guard also slept nearby.''

On the second day, he was shifted to a six-feet-by-two feet room with only one locked window and a mattress. They told him to rest quietly and assured that nothing would happen if he remained quiet. ``They, however, also threatened that anything could happen if I didn't.''

Ganguly said the next day (Sunday April four), he was again blindfolded and taken to the `boss' who apologised for his abduction and said `not one paisa' would be taken from him or his family. He even asked his name and wanted to know his identity. He also asked him to pronounce Ganguly and wanted to know whether he was a businessman, whether he had a bungalow of his own in Alipore area. ``But when I told them that I am only acompany executive and stay in a company rented house, they realised their mistakes and stated that it is a clear case of mistaken identity,'' Ganguly said.

Quoting newspaper reports that industrialists in Calcutta were raising money to pay for Ganguly's release the `boss' said that if they offered the money it would be accepted. But he would be released even if they did not pay up.

From this time his abductors gave him food of his choice and medicines for his diabetes, Ganguly said.