Dummy writer scam: Two builders quizzed

Two Ahmedabad-based builders-Pravin Kotak and Sanjay Patel-appeared before the Ahmedabad Crime Branch on Friday in connection with the 2008 dummy-writer scam.

Two Ahmedabad-based builders Pravin Kotak and Sanjay Patel appeared before the Ahmedabad Crime Branch on Friday in connection with the 2008 dummy-writer scam.

The inquiry is part of progress report that the Crime Branch will be submitting to the Gujarat High Court on June 21. After Gujarat University Syndicate member Manish Doshi had filed a PIL against Kotak and Patel for keeping dummy writers for their daughter and son during the state board exams,the High Court had asked Ahmedabad Crime Branch to investigate into the issue,last year.

Doshi said,After police unearthed the scam,where both the builders showed fake certificates of their son and daughter,FIR was lodged on March 13,2008. However,the matter was hushed up till a PIL was filed in 2009. This matter is sub-judice,we cannot comment on it. Five persons had appeared at the crime branch office, said Ahmedabad ACP Mayursinh Chavda.

In April,one tutor,Bhagawatsinh,was arrested for his role in the case. Along with two builders,Rajendra Pathak from Swastik Shishu Mandir School,Rajendra Pathak,Bhupendra Shah and H M Chavda from Education department were present during the interrogation.

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