According to recent news from Ahmedabad, Kiran Patel, a conman who posed as an official from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), has been charged with cheating a businessman from Ahmedabad by promising him a big project in Jammu and Kashmir. This is the sixth FIR filed against Patel, who was first arrested in March by the J&K police for posing as a PMO official and was brought to Gujarat on April 8 in connection with another cheating case registered against him. Patel had allegedly identified himself as an additional director in the PMO and 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. He has been booked under Indian Penal Code sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating), and 170 (pretending to hold office as a public servant). The complainant Kishor Chandarana said that he spent ₹3.5 lakh on Kiran Patel by organizing an event at 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. However, Patel allegedly deceived Chandarana by promising him a big project in Jammu and Kashmir and failed to deliver on his promise, resulting in the filing of an FIR against him for cheating and criminal breach of trust.
Kiran Patel has been accused in six FIRs. One of the cases is related to the alleged usurping of a bungalow belonging to a senior citizen in a posh locality of Ahmedabad. In this case, Patel’s wife, Malini Patel, was arrested on March 28 as a co-accused. The other cases against Patel include cheating and criminal breach of trust.
