Hitesh Pandya, a senior legit withinside the Gujarat Chief Minister`s office, has resigned following a large controversy over his son being a part of a faux ‘legit’ group of “Prime Minister’s Office” which tricked the Jammu and Kashmir management and safety equipment to steady a Z-plus safety cover, legit lodging at a five-supermegacelebrity inn, and plenty more.
Amit Hitesh Pandya, son of Mr Pandya, turned into a part of a faux ‘legit group’ led with the aid of using conman Kiran Bhai Patel who made headlines after his arrest early this month.
Mr Pandya, who turned into serving because the Gujarat Chief Minister’s Public Relations Officer (PRO) due to the fact 2001, tendered his resignation to Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel the day before today evening
In his resignation letter, Mr Pandya has reportedly stated that he would not need the picture of the Prime Minister’s Office and the Gujarat Chief Minister’s Office to be tarnished, at the same time as his son is “innocent”.
“My son is innocent. However, I do not need the picture of the CMO and the PMO tarnished, and therefore I am resigning from the post,” Mr Pandya is mentioned to have stated withinside the resignation letter.
Gujarat BJP has additionally reportedly suspended Amit Pandya from the number one club of the party. He turned into in rate of the party’s social media branch for the north sector in Gujarat.
Jammu and Kashmir police, however, has now no longer named Amit Pandya as accused withinside the faux PMO group case. Amit and his fellow Gujarati accomplice, Jay Sitapara, have alternatively been made witnesses withinside the case.
The conman Kiran Bahi Patel turned into arrested in advance this month after playing legit protocol for over 4 months even as posing as a senior PMO legit. However, Amit and Jay Sitapara have been allow off with the aid of using police.
They have been known as returned for wondering ultimate week. A senior police legit stated the duo can also additionally have “fallen into the trap” of the conman.
The conman had visited more than one places, which include ahead posts alongside the Line of Control. The group had additionally held conferences with officers in numerous districts throughout Kashmir earlier than the police have been alerted that he turned into a conman.
Earlier, Mr Pandya instructed NDTV that his son turned into innocent, and he might by no means bask in such an activity. “I agree with my son. He might by no means bask in the sort of activity” stated Mr Pandya. Patel, impersonating an Additional Director for method and campaigns withinside the Prime Minister’s Office, turned into arrested on March 2.
But his arrest turned into stored a mystery with the aid of using the police for 2 weeks. The information of the ‘excessive profile’ arrest emerged most effective after a Justice of the Peace despatched him to judicial custody on March 15.
Sources say Amit Hitesh Pandya, Jay Sitapara from Gujarat, and Trilok Singh from Rajasthan have been additionally staying with Patel at a five-supermegacelebrity inn in Srinagar and impersonating an legit group from the Prime Minister’s Office.
The “PMO group” has been touring Kashmir due to the fact October ultimate year. Sources say an IAS officer who’s a district Justice of the Peace in south Kashmir had to begin with knowledgeable the safety wing of the police approximately the go to of a “senior PMO officer”.
He turned into in the end given Z plus safety with the aid of using the safety wing, and nearby police might additionally accompany the ‘VIP’ anywhere he and his group visited throughout their more than one journeys due to the fact October.
Patel is likewise validated on Twitter and has over one thousand followers, which include BJP Gujarat General Secretary Pradipsinh Vaghela.
He shared numerous motion pictures and pics of his ‘legit visits’ in Kashmir surrounded with the aid of using paramilitary guards, the ultimate of which turned into on March 2.