The Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) of Ahmedabad City Police on Wednesday received a six-day remand of Kartik Jasu Manilal Patel, the 60-year-old Chairman of Ahmedabad Bariatrics and Cosmetics Pvt Ltd, the holding company of Khyati Multispeciality Hospital, from a local court. Patel was arrested on Tuesday from Sabarmati Central Jail in the alleged racket pertaining to fake PMJAY cards, which were made for people ineligible to be beneficiaries of the world’s largest public health insurance scheme. The recent arrest came in the case in which an FIR was filed against nine people on December 17, 2024, for allegedly being part of a conspiracy to grant approval for PMJAY cards, forgery, and criminal breach of trust. Patel has been lodged at Sabarmati Central Jail since his arrest on January 18 in the three cases filed against him in connection with the deaths of two PMJAY beneficiaries from Borisana village of Kadi in Mehsana district. Mahesh Girdhar Barot (52) and Nagar Moti Senma (75) died on November 11, 2024, after undergoing what the health department’s expert committee called “completely unnecessary” angioplasty surgeries at the hospital.
