Gujarat GST fraud case: Five accused sent to four-day police custody

However, the tribunal granted 4 days of custody till October 27 of Adil Kadar Khokhar (30), Kadar alias Navdi Rafiqbhai Khokhar (32), Akil Anubhai Pathan (24), Shahrukh Rafiqbhai Rangrej (30), and Sarfaraz Mustufa Chauhan (40). These 5 accused connected Tuesday were the latest to beryllium arrested successful the GST fraud lawsuit that was busted by the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI), and is nether probe by the Crime Branch arsenic good arsenic the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

This has taken the full fig of accused arrested successful this case, including elder writer Mahesh Langa, to 13. More arrests successful this lawsuit are apt this week, said officials.

Maritime Board case
Meanwhile, Gandhinagar Police, which is investigating different lawsuit related to the GST fraud lawsuit — wherever writer Langa, elder adjunct exertion astatine The Hindu, is an accused — are attempting to find retired however Langa got his hands connected the alleged classified documents from the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB).

Langa is successful judicial custody astatine the Sabarmati Central Jail since his remand with the Ahmedabad Crime Branch ended October 18.
Earlier, connected October 22, Langa had been booked nether Section-7 constabulary presumption nether BNS sections 316(5) (criminal breach of trust), 303(2) (theft), 306 (theft by an worker from employer), and 61(2) (criminal conspiracy).

He was besides booked nether sections 7(a) (taking undue vantage to power nationalist servant done corruption oregon amerciable means), 8(1)(i) (whoever accepts oregon obtains oregon attempts to get from different idiosyncratic for himself oregon for immoderate different idiosyncratic immoderate undue vantage arsenic a motive oregon reward to induce a nationalist servant, by corrupt oregon amerciable means), 12 (abetment of offence), 13(1)(a) (public servant commits offence of transgression misconduct), and 13(2) (punishment of nationalist servant for transgression misconduct) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

While officials told The Indian Express that Langa remains the sole accused successful this lawsuit astatine the moment, they fishy that idiosyncratic astatine the GMB bureau had leaked classified documents to Langa.

Investigators said the worldly successful the documents had not been published successful immoderate people oregon physics media truthful they fishy determination could person been ulterior motives. Police are investigating the root of the leak of documents, whether they were sold to Langa and whether helium sought to marque a nett from the documents.

Gandhinagar SP Ravi Teja Vasamsetty told The Indian Express, “We are presently investigating the root of the leak and wherefore the documents were leaked. We person not sought to apprehension Langa successful this lawsuit arsenic yet.”