In May 2019, the ED informed a special court that Patel was a close associate of middleman Deepak Talwar, who allegedly facilitated the allocation of profitable Air India routes to private airlines during 2008-09
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Patel, in his capacity as Union Civil Aviation Minister during the merger, was among the key suspects in the case and had been questioned by the CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED).