AHMEDABAD: Kiran Patel, the conman arrested in Jammu & Kashmir for allegedly posing as a senior PMO official, was arrested in a second case late on Saturday by Ahmedabad crime branch.
He is reported to have posed as a PMO official in the Ahmedabad. A doctor who also owns an event management company filed a complaint against Kiran Patel on Saturday, for impersonating a public servant, cheating and breach of trust.
In his complaint registered with detection of crime branch, Hardik Chandarana said Patel cheated him out of a total of Rs 3.52 lakh. He first got him to organize and pay the cost of organizing "a G20 event" in Ahmedabad and did not pay him.
Patel also told Chandrana that he would get him a contract for a medical conference in Jammu & Kashmir, and got him to pay for tickets to Kashmir and accommodation there. During all this, Patel had posed as an official in the PMO and said he had been "given the responsibility of development of Kashmir".
The complainant said Kiran Patel contacted him in January, saying he had to organize an event. Patel came to his office, RX Events Company, at Shyamak Complex in Ambawadi on January 10. At the meeting, he forwarded him a guest list on WhatsApp, and they agreed to organize an event called "G20 summit: Scope and Priorities for Various Industries", at Hotel Hyatt on Ashram Road.
"At the meeting, Patel told me he had been given the responsibility of development of Kashmir. He said he would get me a contract for a big medical conference to be held in J&K", he said.
Patel forwarded a visiting card to Chandarana, which said: "Dr Kiran Patel, Additional Director (strategy & campaigns) PMO, New Delhi. Residence 34, Meena Baug Flats, Opp. Vigyan Bhavan, Off Janpath Road, New Delhi-110001."
Chandarana said a WhatsApp group called "29th Event @ Hyatt" was created, and he was added as a member. The "G20 event" was held on January 29 and Chandarana paid Rs 1.92 lakh for it.
After the event, Patel told Chandarana that the two of them would have to go to Kashmir from February 8 to 10, to plan the medical conference. Chandarana booked the air tickets to Srinagar and rooms at the Hotel Lalit Palace. He paid a total of Rs 1.6 lakh for the Kashmir trip.
Chandarana was shown a certain place and told that the medical conference would be held there. Chandarana said he was thus cheated out of a total of Rs 3.52 lakh by Kiran Patel, who pretended to be an official in the PMO.
