Acting on a tip-off, the Dolvan police had recovered the body in Gangapur village on April 27 but the Tapi district police failed to identify the woman.
Patel was previously booked in four cases, three FIRs in Naroda (Ahmedabad) in 2017, Raopura (Vadodara) in 2019, Bayad (Aravalli) in 2019, and one civil case in 2019 under the Negotiable Instruments Act in local courts of Vyara and Anand.