“My husband is an engineer and I’m a physician. My husband went there for improvement work as he’s an engineer and nothing else. He has achieved nothing mistaken. Our advocate there’s taking care of the matter. My husband won’t ever do mistaken to anybody. I can not remark additional,” India At present quoted Malini Patel as saying.

HT additionally reached out to Malini who stated she didn’t wish to remark and pointed all inquiries to their lawyer, Gujarat-based excessive court docket advocate Nishar Vaidhya.

Who’s Kiran Patel and the way he conned Jammu and Kashmir cops:

1. Kiran Patel had claimed he had been given mandate by the federal government to establish consumers for apple orchards in south Kashmir and a few IAS officers had been in awe of him as he had been dropping names of high-ranking bureaucrats and politicians in New Delhi.

2. He was on his third go to to the Kashmir valley and was subsequently arrested by alert safety officers on March 3.

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3. Throughout Patel’s earlier go to to Kashmir, he had travelled to vacationer hotspots like Gulmarg claiming that the federal government had tasked him to search for enchancment of resort amenities within the space.

4. Patel has over 1,500 followers on Twitter. His Twitter bio reads he’s a resident of “34, Meena Baug, New Delhi”; a PHD from a university in Virginia, an MBA from IIM Trichy; “thinker, strategist, analyst, and marketing campaign supervisor”.

5. Wearing a Nehru jacket and sun shades, his social media posts present he went to at least one location to a different within the conflict-ridden Union Territory with an enormous police entourage, reportedly Z-plus safety cowl, carrying weapons round him.

6. Officers investigating the case informed HT that, Patel had held a number of conferences with high bureaucrats within the Valley, typically promising prize postings. In his conferences with political leaders, he informed them he had been despatched to test the heart beat of the political state of affairs “on behalf of PMO”.

7. Among the many locations Patel visited with safety cowl had been Kaman Publish on the Line of Management, and Lal Chowk in Srinagar, and Spice Park in south Kashmir’s Pulwama.

How was Kiran Patel arrested?

1. Based on court docket paperwork, Kiran Patel was on his third go to to the Kashmir valley and was subsequently arrested by alert safety officers on March 3.

2. The Jammu & Kashmir Police stated the CID wing of the state police intimated the SSP Srinagar of the presence of an impersonator on the Lalit Lodge. “The particulars of this individual had been discovered as Kiran Bhai Patel…who was impersonating himself as Further Director (technique and campaigns) PMO, New Delhi. As his replies had been discovered suspicious, he was taken to Nishat police station, the place he admitted his crime. Ten faux visiting playing cards and two mobiles had been seized from him,” the police stated in a press release on Friday.

3. He has been arrested below sections associated to dishonest and forgery. The case, police stated, is within the preliminary stage of investigations, including that he had three earlier instances of dishonest and forgery in Vadodara, Ahmedabad and Bayad.

(With inputs from Mir Ehsan Srinagar and Maulik Pathak in Ahmedabad)