With this, the number of arrests has gone up to four in the case. The police had earlier arrested Pandit’s businessman Pankil Mohta, Zala’s nephew Kripalsinh Vaghela, and Shailendrasinh Sodha alias Bhanubha, who is also the nephew of a late IPS officer who had served as inspector general of the Border range.
His surrender comes around three weeks after a designated Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court in Bhuj, Kutch declared him and three other policemen proclaimed absconders.
According to another FIR registered at Mundra police station on October 26, Pandit and his associates used to import areca nuts from abroad in containers.
The 4 officers allegedly intercepted a truck loaded with arecanuts in Mundra town on April 13 and extorted Rs 3.75 crore from Mumbai-based businessman.
The investigation has revealed that CP Traders, a firm registered in Gori’s name raised false invoices for the sale of areca nuts to another firm Mohit Enterprise, and also raised false bills to show that areca nut consignment was sent from Rajkot to a godown in Kutch.