Popular Builders, owner Raman Patel, was sent to police remand till Monday evening in yet another case of alleged cheating, forgery, and criminal conspiracy related to purchase of a land belonging to a cooperative which had gone into liquidation.
Chief judicial magistrate at Mirzapur court, VA Dhadhal, on Thursday granted Patel’s custody to Sola police in connection with the sale of a land in 2015 by office-bearers of Someshwar Darshan Cooperative Housing Society Ltd. An FIR was lodged for the sale which was not permitted then.
Patel, who is lodged at Sabarmati central jail as an undertrial in an FIR registered by his daughter-in-law and half-a-dozen other cases of land transactions, opposed police’s request for his remand.
But when the court granted custodial interrogation till Monday, he requested the court that there was no fan in the barrack where he is to be kept and that he should be allowed to have tiffin from home.
The court asked the police to allow him home-cooked food and provide a ceiling fan in his room. If the authorities cannot arrange for the fan, Patel can use a table fan at his own cost, the court said.