Two more members of Jayesh Patel gang arrested

Rajkot: Two more members of the extortionist and land mafia, Jayesh Ranpariya’s (Patel) gang were arrested on Wednesday after being booked under Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organized Crime Act (GujCTOC).

Those arrested were Jaspal Jadeja (35) and his younger brother Yashpal (25), "While the custody of Jaspal was secured from Jamnagar Central Jail, where he was lodged in one of the extortion and land usurpation cases of the Ranpariya gang, Yashpal surrendered before the police," said S S Ninama, inspector with Jamnagar special operation group (SOG).

The Jadeja brothers were remanded to 12 days police custody. Six of the eight members of the Ranpariya gang, whose remand period was getting over on Thursday, were also produced before the GujCTOC court which sent them to jail.

Those eight arrested included Atul Bhanderi, a sitting BJP councillor of Jamnagar Municipal Corporation; Nilesh Toliya, a prominent builder; Vashram Miyatra, former head constable of local crime branch (LCB); Pravin Chovatiya, owner of a local newspaper, Mukesh Abangi, builder Jigar alias Jimmy Aalatiya and their associates Anil Parmar and Praful Popat.

“Considering the fact that these persons were involved in organized crimes and keeping them together in one jail would mean allowing them to get together and hatch more conspiracies, we submitted an application before the court, requesting it to lodge all the accused separately in different jails of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajkot and Surat,” said Ninama.

Ranpariya has been charged with several criminal cases, mostly land grabbing and extortion.

He is believed to have fled to Dubai before his name figured in advocate Kirit Joshi murder case. Joshi, who was fighting several cases against Patel, was stabbed to death on April 28, 2018, allegedly on the orders of Patel.


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