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In a uncommon transfer, the Gujarat police have invoked stringent Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime Act (GujCTOC), a law with stringent provisions, against 14 members of a strong gang concerned in dozens of circumstances of extortion and land grabbing in Jamnagar.
The gang is allegedly operated by one Jayesh Patel, who’s presently overseas since he fled the nation in 2018. Out of these 14 individuals who’ve been slapped with the GujCTOC, eight have already been arrested, whereas one was in jail.
“Five people including Jayesh Patel are at large and yet to be arrested,” mentioned Jamnagar Superintendent of Police Deepan Bhadran, who was just lately moved to Jamnagar after Jayesh Patel’s gang members turned a serious nuisance within the State.
Earlier, Mr. Bhadran was Deputy Commissioner of Police within the Ahmedabad crime department.
While the kingpin of the gang, Jayesh Patel, is believed to be hiding in Dubai, the police have arrested eight of the 14 individuals, together with Atul Bhanderi, a sitting Bharatiya Janata Party Municipal Councillor of Jamnagar; Nilesh Toliya, a distinguished builder; Vashram Miyatra, former Head Constable of the native crime department; and Pravin Chovatiya, proprietor of a neighborhood newspaper.
Others arrested and booked had been Mukesh Abangi; builder Jigar alias Jimmy Aalatiya; and their associates Anil Parmar and Praful Popat.
Another prime accused, Jaspal Jadeja, who was arrested earlier, was additionally booked underneath the GujCTOC.
Bhanderi can also be accused in an offence of firing on a Professor of the Mahila College in November 2019, in a case of land grabbing.
In previous few years, Jamnagar and its adjoining areas turned “hot” locations for extortion, land grabbing, encroachment, and forgery of land data and paperwork.
According to Mr. Bhadran, for the primary time in Gujarat, a case has been registered underneath Section 4 of the GujCTOC, which pertains to possession of accountable property belonging to an organised crime syndicate.
He added that the police have filed half a dozen FIRs against the crime syndicate or gang operated by Jayesh Patel, who additionally figures in 41 different circumstances of homicide, try to homicide, extortion, land and property grabbing, and dishonest in Jamnagar, Ahmedabad and different locations.
Now the police would transfer to hint, consider and seize the properties of all accused individuals.
In 2018, a number one native lawyer Kirit Joshi was reportedly killed by Jayesh Patel gang members when Mr. Joshi was combating as a lawyer in a disputed land matter value ₹100 crore.
“The gang members would identify a parcel of land, create fake records and make bogus sale deeds. After that, the original owner of the land would be contacted for compromise and settle the matter by extracting huge money as extortion,” Rajkot vary Deputy Inspector General of Police Sandeep Singh had informed media individuals on Friday.
Following dozens of complaints about land and property grabbing and extortion from native industrialists, merchants and businessmen, a particular crew underneath SP Bhadran was shaped to crack the whip.
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