The section, which was one of the main grounds for the court rejecting Patel’s first bail application in March, has been dropped by the Investigating Officer “on the basis of non-existing material”, the court noted.
Conman Kiran Patel, who faces half a dozen cheating cases already, was arrested on Thursday on charges of cheating a businessman in Gujarat's Morbi of Rs 48 lakh.Produced in court by the city police Crime Branch, Patel, and his wife Malini .
Kiran has been brought to Ahmedabad in relation to the probe in an FIR alleging him of cheating a Morbi businessman, Bharat Patel, of over Rs 42 lakh in 2017 by falsely identifying himself as a class-1 officer.
In their chargesheet against Patel, the police have listed Amit Hitesh Pandya and Jay Sivji Sitapara, the two associates who were initially questioned for their alleged involvement in the fraud, among the witnesses.