Gandhinagar:

Amreli SP Jagdish Patel, who was arrested in sensational Bitcoin extortion and loot case on April 23, has finally been suspended from his post.

The home department has issued notification in this regard today.

An official of the department said that the suspension of Patel, won’t be revoked even if he was released on bail.

Notably a local court in Ahmedabad had on May extended remand of Patel to CID-crime till May 5 for further interrogation and investigation. He was arrested on April 23 after long interrogation at the CID-crime headquarters in capital Gandhinagar. Earlier the same court had allowed 8 days remand of him ie till May 1.

The sensational case has been lodged on the complaint of Surat builder Shailesh Bhatt, who has alleged that he was kidnapped by PI Anant Patel and several other policemen of Amreli LCB. Bhatt alleged that after his abduction from Gandhinagar, he was kept in a farm house near hare under abduction from where he was forced to reveal the code for transfer of 200 bitcoins worth Rs 12 crore. He has also alleged that one of his partner Kirit Paladia was the main conspirator and also former MLA Kotadia and his relative Sanjay Kotadia were involved in it.

PI Anant Patel on his arrest last month alleged that he had abducted the builder on instructions from SP Jagdish Patel.

DeshGujarat