Phone charger, letter recovered from Hardik Patel

In the complaint, Chaudhary said when Hardik was being taken from Surat Jail on Tuesday morning for Visnagar court, he took out a plastic bag from his pocket and tried to hand it over to a person standing near the police van. Chaudhary and other policemen, who spotted spotted this “suspicious action”, frisked him and found the plastic bag containing a mobile phone charger, a mobile phone battery and a letter. When the police team returned to Surat on Wednesday after the hearing at Visnagar court, Chaudhary contacted Sachin police and lodged the complaint under IPC Section 188 and Prison Act 42,43,45 Sub Section 12.

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Chaudhary also handed over the mobile charger, battery and the letter to Sachin police. Recently, a complaint was lodged at Sachin police station after two mobile phones, including an android phone, a charger and a mobile battery, were recovered near Hardik’s barrack by the Surat Central Jail authorities.

In the letter, a copy of which is with The Indian Express, Hardik appealed to the Patidar youths, who are part of the agitation, not to commit suicide.

He said, “We are fighting for our rights and for that we have put 27 demands before the government.” Sachin police inspector M H Shaikh,said, “We have registered an offence against Hardik. We will question him after taking permission from the Surat district court .”