Prame
sh S Jain
Stepping up the investigations into Cheating case,the Basaveshwaranagar police on Saturday track down Gopal Joshi,brother of union Minister Prahlad Joshi in Kolhapur in Maharastra in connection with the cheating case .
The police also arrested son Ajay Joshi who is also accused in the cheating case,where they had taken shelter after the FIR was registered against them.
The duo along with two others identified as Somashekhar Nayak and a woman had allegedly cheated a former MLA by offering a ticket in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The police soon after filing FIR arrested Somashekhar Nayak who had mediated the deal and a woman who received the amount posing as sister of Gopal Joshi on Friday.
However Gopal Joshi and his son managed to flee and Home Minister,G Parameshwara said that the police team was tracking down their movements .
The duo had produced before the local court in Kolhapur and being brought to the city for further investigation,a senior officer,said .
Probe revealed that Somashekar Nayak,believed to conspired with the rest,and Vijaya Kumari,who posed as Prahlad Joshi’s sister using the name Vijayalakshmi Joshi.
The four were named in the FIR registered on October 17 based on a complaint by Sunitha Chauvan,the wife of former Nagthan JD(S) MLA Devanand Phool Singh Chauhan.
The case was registered under BNS sections, including cheating,criminal breach of trust and criminal conspiracy.Sections of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act were also invoked.
A day after the Bengaluru police filed an FIR against Union Minister Pralhad Joshi’s brother Gopal Joshi on charges of duping a former MLA with an assurance of getting BJP ticket, Mr.Pralhad Joshi held a press conference in New Delhi on Friday completely denying any kind of association or connection with his brother.
He also released documents dating back to 2012 in which Mr. Pralhad Joshi had claimed that he did not have any connection with his brother and has been separated from him for decades.
