Indore brown sugar haul: MP Cong chief’s brother’s name has come up in interrogation, claim cops
“Rajendra Nagar police arrested Irfan Khan alias Golu Chanderi and Rani Bhai and 10.8 grams of brown sugar was seized from their possession. The process of registering a case against both the accused is on,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Narendra Rawat told reporters.
The DCP said that preliminary interrogation of the two accused revealed that they were going to deliver this consignment of brown sugar to two persons named Nana Patwari and Manav Gangwani.
Rawat said that Nana Patwari has nine criminal cases registered in his name and information about the criminal backgrounds of others has been collected, appropriate legal action will be taken based on the investigation.
While lawyer Jai Hardia, representing Patwari’s family, claimed that the police had taken Nana Patwari into custody, DCP Rawat did not reveal whether Nana Patwari and Gangwani were arrested in connection with the brown sugar seizure.
“The police detained Nana Patwari, the younger brother of the state Congress president, and he was also taken to the scene of the incident,” Hardia said.
When asked if Nana Patwari was detained in connection with a drug case, Hardia claimed that he was not aware of it at the moment. Addressing the development, MP Congress president Jitu Patwari said in an
In the post, Patwari said he “knew” that “fake legal proceedings” would be initiated against him and his family “due to the government’s personal ill will”.
“Let me state it once again! We will neither be afraid nor bow down to this policy full of legal pressure/influence! Instead, we will wage the land war with greater force!” The Congress leader asserted.
In a post on ‘X’, Congress Rajya Sabha member and senior lawyer Vivek Tankha said, “I learned from @jitupatwari ji that Indore police suddenly arrested and took away her younger brother without giving any information about the crime and this information was not given to the Patwari family.” Tankha further said, “We request @DGP MP and @CP_INDORE @comindore not to create such an app which will create trouble in future.”
