By Majid Nabi
Srinagar- Over a month after being arrested from a five-star hotel in Srinagar, the Jammu and Kashmir police on Thursday handed over the custody of conman Kiran Jagdish Bhai Patel to five member team of Gujarat police in compliance with court orders.
Patel was handed over to a five member team of Gujarat police, after the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Srinagar allowed an application by the Ahmadabad City Crime Branch.
CJM Srinagar, Raja Tasleem in his order said the submissions made by the Assistant Public Prosecutor (APP) carries much weight and at the same time seems to be just, proper and appealing.
“Therefore, application is allowed, hence the custody of the accused namely Kiranbhai @Bansi son of Jagdishibhai Patel aged 48, residing at A-17, Prestige Bunglow, Nr. Jiviba School, Ghodasar, Ahmedabad City Gujarat is changing from FIR No 19/2023 of police station Nishat to FIR No 1119011230073/2023 of DCB police Station Ahmedabad city, Gujarat,” reads the order passed by CJM Srinagar.
Patel was produced through video conferencing and the court after hearing and from the perusal of all material available on the Case Diary, directed the Central Jail Srinagar authorities to handover the custody of the conman to Gujarat Police.
Patel, who impersonated as Additional Director in (Strategy & Campaigns) Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and enjoyed requisite perks including Z-plus security cover, a bulletproof SUV and official accommodation at a five-star hotel, was lodged in Srinagar Central Jail after his arrest on March 3.
Purported videos of Patel surveying the snow slopes of Gulmarg with a posse of armed security personnel around him and of a convoy of vehicles accompanying him weaving through a Valley town have been circulated widely across social media platforms.
He had even visited the last post at Uri in north Kashmir, posing for pictures at a bridge treated as a Line of Control between India and Pakistan.
Sources in the police department told Kashmir Observer that the five member Gujarat police team left for Ahmedabad by road around 5pm Thursday. Sources said the trials against conman will run concurrently.
It may be in place to mention that the court of CJM Srinagar had on March 23, rejected bail of the accused conman on the grounds that granting bail to him at this stage would undermine the integrity of the probe.
A day later on March 24, Patel, a resident of the Ghodasar area of Ahmedabad, was booked by the Gujarat police on cheating and criminal conspiracy charges for trying to usurp a senior citizen’s bungalow. Besides it, three cases under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including cheating, forgery and breach of trust, dating back to 2017 are registered against him in police stations in Ahmedabad and Baroda.
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