Main accused in Rs 100 crore land grabbing case surrenders

RAJKOT: Jayesh Patel, one of the main accused in the Rs 100 crore land grabbing case of Jamnagar, surrendered before a court on Friday. The case is considered to be the biggest forgery scams in Saurashtra region.
“We will now produce him before court and seek his remand for further probe. Till now, we have arrested over eight accused in this case,” said K G Zala, police inspector, Local Crime Branch, Jamnagar.
In May this year, 13 persons including sub-registrar of properties in Jamnagar were booked for allegedly forging documents to usurp land worth Rs 100 crore. The accused had allegedly forged document of land owned by real estate developer V P Mehta on Ranjitsagar Road in Jamnagar, considered to be one of the prime locations.
Jayesh and others had forged Mehta’s son, Amrish Mehta’s election ID card, using an old photograph and also forged his signature. They further prepared a bogus power of attorney of the land and got it registered with the sub-registrar office by showing them as genuine.
The forgery came to light when Jayesh contacted Mehta to show him the documents of his land. Jayesh also asked him for settlement. On coming to know about the fraud, Mehta lodged a complaint with the police which later handed over the probe to Local Crime Branch in Jamnagar.
Those booked include Jayesh Patel, Vipul Patel, a resident of Ahmedabad, Indravadan Patel, a resident of Vahelal village in Daskroi taluka of Ahmedabad, Jaman Moliya, a resident of Jamnagar, Mayur Sabhaya, a resident of Chandragadh village in Jamnagar, Ramde Nandaniya, Karna Kasariya, Ramesh Patel, Javed Ahmed Sheikh, lawyer Kalpesh Faliya and sub-registrar B K Bhatt among others.