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Morbi bizman cheating case: Kiran Patel sent to 3-day police custody

The FIR lodged at Sola police station in Ahmedabad in May has booked Kiran and his wife Malini under sections 170 (personating a public servant), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.

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A magistrate court on Friday remanded alleged conman Kiran Patel to the custody of the Ahmedabad Crime Branch for three days in relation to a case of cheating a Morbi businessman of over Rs 42 lakh by posing as a Class I officer.
The crime branch had sought Kiran’s remand for seven days after bringing him over to Ahmedabad from a Srinagar jail where he was lodged, by a transit remand. Kiran was presented before the magistrate court and remanded to police custody till 12 pm on August 14.

The FIR lodged at Sola police station in Ahmedabad in May has booked Kiran and his wife Malini under sections 170 (personating a public servant), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.

The FIR, lodged based on a complaint filed by Morbi-based businessman Bharat Patel, has alleged that Kiran falsely identified himself as a Class I officer, gained their trust and assured Bharat that he can aid him in procuring a Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) license for his business.

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Bharat has alleged that went on to pay Kiran over Rs 42 lakh in this regard. But he later found that Kiran was neither a Class 1 officer nor had he submitted any application on behalf of Bharat for a GPCB license. Subsequently, Kiran returned around Rs 11 lakh to Bharat, while Rs 31.11 lakh is still pending, Bharat has claimed.

The police have sought Kiran’s remand on the ground that they need to probe how this Rs 31.11 lakh was used and who was given the money. Also, the police wanted to conduct a technical analysis of the call recordings made by Bharat of his conversations with Kiran.

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