Man held for fraud claims mistaken identity
TNN | Updated: Dec 30, 2018, 04:19 IST
Representative ImageAHMEDABAD: After Dholka police arrested a man in connection with bank fraud cases, the person arrested has claimed that he is not the accused who cops were looking after for the past 15 years.
Kalpesh Manubhai Rawal (48) was arrested from his residence in Ghatlodia on December 25 and handed over to Dholka police the next day. Dholka police were looking for a man in two cases of bank fraud tatalling Rs 1.5 crore. A local court sent Rawal to two-day police remand and finally to Sabarmati central jail on Friday afternoon.
Dholka police had registered two FIRs in 2003 on complaints filed by The Janata Commercial Co-operative Bank Ltd against Kalpesh Manuprasad Rawal, his wife Jagrutiben and several others for not repaying the loan amounts after obtaining them for business development. Warrants were issued against Rawal in 2003, but he never fell in police net. Rawal was living in Satellite area.
Fifteen years later, Ghatlodia police arrested Kalpesh Manubhai Rawal. When he was produced before local court to seek police remand, Rawal’s advocate submitted that the arrested person was a mistaken identity. He used to live in Mumbai 15 years ago with his family and was engaged in a private job. He is employed in a private firm in Ahmedabad at present and draws a salary of Rs 9,000. His wife’s name is Vaishaliben, whereas the wanted person’s wife was Jagrutiben.
On Friday, when police produced him before the magisterial court in Dholka, his advocate Anand Brahmbhatt requested the court to look into the issue of mistaken identity before sending him to judicial custody. The lawyer tendered an application to the court and submitted, “It is the duty of police officials to conduct Test Identification parade to link the accused with the crime and to rule out the case of mistaken identity.”
The lawyer urged the court to pass an order on his application and submitted, “If this court fails to do justice, we would be compelled to take the lawful shelter of the high court by way of filing the writ of habeas corpus.”
Kalpesh Manubhai Rawal (48) was arrested from his residence in Ghatlodia on December 25 and handed over to Dholka police the next day. Dholka police were looking for a man in two cases of bank fraud tatalling Rs 1.5 crore. A local court sent Rawal to two-day police remand and finally to Sabarmati central jail on Friday afternoon.
Dholka police had registered two FIRs in 2003 on complaints filed by The Janata Commercial Co-operative Bank Ltd against Kalpesh Manuprasad Rawal, his wife Jagrutiben and several others for not repaying the loan amounts after obtaining them for business development. Warrants were issued against Rawal in 2003, but he never fell in police net. Rawal was living in Satellite area.
Fifteen years later, Ghatlodia police arrested Kalpesh Manubhai Rawal. When he was produced before local court to seek police remand, Rawal’s advocate submitted that the arrested person was a mistaken identity. He used to live in Mumbai 15 years ago with his family and was engaged in a private job. He is employed in a private firm in Ahmedabad at present and draws a salary of Rs 9,000. His wife’s name is Vaishaliben, whereas the wanted person’s wife was Jagrutiben.
On Friday, when police produced him before the magisterial court in Dholka, his advocate Anand Brahmbhatt requested the court to look into the issue of mistaken identity before sending him to judicial custody. The lawyer tendered an application to the court and submitted, “It is the duty of police officials to conduct Test Identification parade to link the accused with the crime and to rule out the case of mistaken identity.”
The lawyer urged the court to pass an order on his application and submitted, “If this court fails to do justice, we would be compelled to take the lawful shelter of the high court by way of filing the writ of habeas corpus.”
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