By Majid Nabi
Srinagar- Gujarat police on Monday brought back infamous conman Kiran Bhai Patel to Srinagar and handed over his custody to the Srinagar police for further investigations into the cases registered against him.
Highly placed sources in the police department told Kashmir Observer that a five member team of Gujarat Police handed over conman Kiran Bhai Patel to Srinagar police on Monday evening, in compliance with the court orders.
The development, sources said, came after Ahmadabad City Crime Branch completed investigations into the property fraud case registered against Patel.
Patel posed as Additional Director (Strategy and Campaigns) Prime Minister’s Office, New Delhi, during his trips to the Valley. The court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Srinagar had rejected Patel’s bail petition and remanded him to eight day police custody.
According to sources, the conman will be detained at the Nishat police station, before being transferred to Srinagar Central Jail on Tuesday.
“Since the team arrived in Srinagar late in the evening, it was decided that Kiran Patel will be kept in the concerned police station for a night. Tomorrow, he will be transferred to Srinagar Central Jail. He will be presented before the court soon,” they added.
Patel, a resident of the Ghodasar area of Ahmedabad, was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police last month from a five-star hotel in Srinagar for posing as a top official of the Prime Minister Office (PMO) and availing requisite perks, including a bulletproof car and scores of security personnel.
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.
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