Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
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Bengaluru court on Sunday sent Union Minister Pralhad Joshi’s brother Gopal Joshi and nephew Ajay Joshi to police custody for 10 days.
The father-son duo were arrested on Saturday for allegedly cheating a former Karnataka MLA by offering a ticket in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Gopal and Ajay were detained by the Basaveshwaranagar police in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur and Pune,respectively.From there,the two were brought to Bengaluru somewhere late at night on Saturday.
Once the formal arrest procedures were initiated, the father-son duo were produced before a magistrate on Sunday and were remanded to police custody for further interrogation and investigation.
Along with Gopal and Ajay,police also received the 10-day custody of Vijaya Kumari,who posed as Pralhad’s sister using the name Vijayalakshmi Joshi.
Vijaya and Somashekar Nayak,believed to have conspired with the rest,were arrested earlier.
Nayak continued to remain in judicial custody.
The suspects were named in the FIR registered on October 17 based on a complaint by Sunitha Chavan, the wife of former Nagthan JD(S) MLA Devanand Fulasing Chavan.As per FIR,Sunitha was cheated of Rs 2.5 crore.
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.
