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By Majid Nabi
Srinagar- Intensifying its ongoing probe against conman Kiran Patel, the Jammu and Kashmir police have arrested an owner of a printing press from Gujarat on charges of preparing fake visiting cards for the main accused.
The printing press owner Piyush Bhai of Ahmedabad, Gujarat has been brought to Srinagar by police for further investigation, two days after he was formally arrested in his hometown by a Jammu and Kashmir police team in connection with the case registered at the police station Nishat here last month.
Piyush Bhai, sources said, has been detained at the Nishat Police Station and is being investigated for his role in the high profile case that rattled the entire administration.
“He had printed fake visiting cards for the conman, which was disclosed by him during the investigation,” sources said.
Meanwhile, Kiran Patel on Tuesday was sent to Srinagar Central Jail and will be presented before the court soon. He was brought back to Srinagar from Gujarat by a five member police team on Monday evening.
It may be in place to mention that police team led by Superintendent of Police (SP) east and Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Nehru Park following inputs by CID wing of J&K police, arrested Kiran Jagdish Bhai Patel from a five star hotel in Srinagar on March 3.
Patel posed as Additional Director (Strategy and Campaigns) Prime Minister’s Office, New Delhi, during his trips to the Valley.
He was on his third visit to the Kashmir valley before being arrested.
A resident of the Ghodasar area of Ahmedabad, Patel 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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