One held after car containing arms and ammunition found in Gandhinagar

Gandhinagar: City police on Tuesday arrested a known criminal from Ghodasar in connection with a car that was found containing firearms in the parking area of a residential building in Sargasan on Monday.

After receiving a tip-off, the police seized an abandoned Hyundai Verna car parked at Sargasan Accord flats which contained four weapons and over 300 live cartridges. Upon investigation, it was revealed that the car had been registered in Madhya Pradesh, but the owner had put false number plates on it. A receipt for a religious donation was found in the car which was in the name of Jitendra Patel. Patel owned a house in the same apartment building but was living in Ghodasar. Later, the police team reached Patel’s house and nabbed him from there.

The accused Jitendra Patel is a history sheeter involved in three murder cases in Vatva, Amraiwadi, and Kanbha, one extortion case in Chandkheda police station, one forgery and land grabbing case in Sector-7, and two cases of supplying arms, which are being probed by the Naroda police and the Gujarat anti-terrorist squad (ATS). He was also accused of assault in Isanpur police and one abduction case of a minor girl in Maninagar.

During the primary investigation, it was revealed that Patel had received the weapons before the Covid-19 pandemic from two men named Raja Khan and Alihasan Qureshi, who are from Madhya Pradesh. DeshGujarat