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<\/div>\nAlleged conman Kiran Patel (File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Alleged conman Kiran Patel was on Saturday charged of cheating a businessman from Ahmedabad by posing as an official from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), taking the number of FIRs against him to six, police said.<\/p>\n
The city crime branch registered a first information report (FIR) against Patel on the complaint of one Kishor Chandarana, who owns an event management firm. Patel allegedly deceived the complainant with the promise of getting him a big project in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n
Patel was first arrested in March by the J&K police for posing as a PMO official and brought to Gujarat on a transfer warrant by the Ahmedabad crime branch on April 8 in connection with another cheating case registered against him, said officials.<\/p>\n
According to the crime branch, Patel identified himself as an \u2018additional director’ in the PMO by sending a visiting card to the complainant on WhatsApp and claimed that he had been given the responsibility of the development of Kashmir.<\/p>\n
He lured the complainant by promising to offer him the contract for an all-India level medical conference at Pulwama in J&K and made him spend Rs 3.5 lakh, said police.<\/p>\n
Chandarana told police that he spent the money on Patel by organising an event in a five-star hotel in Ahmedabad under the banner of G20 summit and paying for Patel’s air travel from Ahmedabad to Srinagar and his stay at a five-star hotel there.<\/p>\n
In the latest case, Patel has been booked under Indian Penal Code sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating), and 170 (pretending to hold office as public servant).<\/p>\n
Patel was brought to Ahmedabad in connection with a case related to usurping a bungalow belonging to a senior citizen in a posh locality of the city in which his wife Malini Patel was arrested on March 28 as a co-accused.<\/p>\n
With this, Patel has been shown as an accused in six FIRs, said officials.<\/p>\n
Apart from the FIR in Srinagar of J&K, Patel has also been named in cases registered at Naroda police station in Ahmedabad, Raopura police station in Vadodara and Bayad in Aravalli district, said officials.<\/p>\n
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