Couple with child from South Bopal face horrific night on way to home from SVPI airport after Bangkok trip; Police complaint filed

Gandhinagar: Sola High Court Police has registered a complaint given by a complainant under IPC sections 384 and 144 against one TRB Jawan named Vishal Solanki and two police personnel, namely Mukesh Chaudhary (ASI) and Ashok Patel (Constable).

The complainant is a 33-year-old businessman from South Bopal, Milanbhai Kela, who owns a Marutinandan Proteins packing unit at Changodar industrial area in the city.

Milanbhai in his complaint stated that on 25 August at around 1.30 am he was coming from SVPI International Airport (after arriving from Bangkok on an international flight) with his one-year-old child and wife in Uber taxi. The car was stopped by two policemen who were in civil dress on SP ring road near Ognaj toll tax booth. There was a Bolero car parked nearby with two persons in police dress along with two to three persons in civil dress there.

A person in civil dress asked – ‘why are you out so late, from where are you coming? You have made breach of notification. We have to file complaint against you.’

They then made Milanbhai sit in Bolero police van. Two persons, one in police dress and another in civil dress sat with Milanbhai in police vehicle, while the other in police uniform entered into Uber car in which Milanbhai’s wife and child were sitting along with the Uber driver.

The cops switched off the mobile phone of husband – wife both and kept them in their possession. Later both cars were taken to some unidentified place. A person sitting in Bolero wearing police dress asked Milanbhai to pay Rs. 2 lakh and issued a threat to jail him otherwise in some crime that would attract three-year imprisonment.

Milanbhai in his complaint further says that he was in fear and he replied he had not so much money. Milanbhai pleaded that he had a small child with him and he can pay Rs. 10,000 at present. The police men started bargaining and finalized Rs. 60,000 payment for which they took Milanbhai to Ganesh Glory building based SBI ATM in Jagatpur area. Milanbhai withdrew Rs. 40,000 from ATM and returned to the car and paid it to the person who was in police dress. However Milanbhai was asked to pay another Rs. 20,000. Milanbhai’s wife Priyankaben was told by cops to deposit Rs. 20,000 in Uber car driver Dipak Patel’s mobile phone through google pay. Accordingly Priyankaben paid Rs. 20,000 online to driver Dipak Patel through Google Pay.

Then the police men told driver Dipakbhai to withdraw Rs. 20,000 from ATM from his account. Accordingly Milanbhai and Dipakbhai went to SBI ATM and withdrew Rs. 20,000, from driver Dipakbhai’s account. Thus the police men took Rs. 60,000 in total from Milanbhai and his wife. They further issued threat that this incident must not be reported anywhere or there shall be bitter consequences of that.

Then the cops returned the mobile phones of husband-wife and released them with their Uber taxi.

Milanbhai returned home with wife and a child and shared the details of a shocking incident with his father, and accordingly a police complaint was registered by Milan Kela at Sola High Court police station on August 26.

It is learnt that the three accused were from Traffic police and they are identified as TRB Jawan Vishal Solanki, ASI Mukesh Chaudhary and Constable Ashok Patel. DeshGujarat