Aide held for ‘helping’ Narayan Sai

The followers and close aides of Sai had hatched a conspiracy to get the bundles out from the Surat Crime Branch custody.

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The police claim that in the conspiracy Patel also played an important role. The police arrested Crime Branch police sub-inspector C M Kumbhani and several others, including Sahaj Super store owner Ketan Patel of Surat in a bribe case of Rs 13 crore.

After the arrest of K D Patel, he was produced before Surat district Additional Session Judge R T Vachhani. After going through the remand grounds and arguments, the court sent him to police remand till March 30.
Assistant Commissioner of Police J A Patel said, “K D Patel is a homoeopathic doctor staying nearby Motera Ashram in Ahmedabad. He is apparently very close to Asaram and Naryan Sai. Patel had taken care of legal matters about the issue of deaths of two minor children in Motera Ashram. His contacts in the legal department had made him closer to Asaram.

“He was also one of the conspirators in the bribe case. We will take Patel to Ahmedabad for voice spectrography test as we have got his phone call recordings with other accused arrested by us in bribe case. We suspect that many more details will come out during the remand period.”

Meanwhile, the ED on Thursday attached Rs 8 crore cash under money laundering Act in the case.