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Pragnesh Harshadbhai Patil, alias Jota, the father of 19-year-old Tathiya whose Jaguar speeding downed nine people in Ahmedabad late Wednesday night, has at least a dozen cases registered against him, including gangsters.
Apart from him, we are also looking for the other youths who were in the car (with Tathya). According to FIR, Pragnesh came to the scene, “got into a confrontation with the crowd, abused them, threatened them and fled with his son and others with him,” he said.
Bragnich, 44, and his son were arrested on various charges, including murder not amounting to murder and criminal intimidation.
A real estate businessman, Pragneesh is no stranger to criminal cases, including gang, criminal intimidation, extortion, forgery, and attempted murder. Since 2012, Pragnich has been involved in at least 13 criminal cases with offenses including the Prohibition Act and the Weapons Act.
According to an FIR filed at Mahela Police Station (West) in Ahmedabad city on November 3, 2020, he was among the five who were booked on charges of kidnapping and kidnapping after a complaint from a 22-year-old woman. The survivor, who was born in Rajkot but resides in Ahmedabad, alleged that she was repeatedly raped by Pragnesh, first in September 2020 in Udaipur and then in Gandhiham when she traveled with him for work. The survivor also alleged that Brajnesh was blackmailing her with a video clip of the first rape.
Pragnesh was arrested in the case in November 2020 before being granted regular bail by the Gujarat High Court in August 2022.
Records from the Supreme Court revealed that the complainant subsequently filed another FIR at the Information Police Station on 9 June 2022 against Pragnesh and two unknown persons for allegedly threatening her. She stated that she was threatened with a knife by two unknown people on a motorbike when she went out to dinner with a friend. That same night around 11pm, she allegedly started receiving threatening calls from Pragnesh who verbally abused her and told her to settle the gangster matter.
Another FIR at Vastrapur Police Station based on a similar complaint by the same woman on 17 June 2022 alleged more incidents of threatening calls to settle the matter with Pragnesh.
In particular, in April 2022, in a petition that applied to set aside a court order for the Ahmedabad Sessions where charges were framed in connection with the trial of the Gangrib case, the High Commissioner set aside the lower court order on technicalities. The High Commissioner has returned the case to the Sessions Court for a new formulation of the charges after due process.
However, the order refers to the survivor’s argument that, since October 2021, Bragnish and the other defendants in the case have been “attempting to delay the trial and have not cooperated with the trial proceedings” in one way or another.
In 2012, an FIR was filed at DCB Police Station, Ahmedabad against him for criminal breach of trust, fraud and forgery. And in another FIR case filed at the same police station in 2020, he was booked on charges of criminal conspiracy, racketeering and criminal intimidation.
In 2016, an FIR filed at Mehsana B Police Department accused him of criminal intimidation. At least four other information information reports were filed against him at the Sola High Court Police Station, including one in 2017 for attempted murder, extortion, obscenity, solicitation, and under the Weapons Act.
He was booked under the ban law in two more FIRs at the Sula High Court Police Station in 2019. A third FIR in 2020 saw him charged with breach of trust, fraud, forgery, criminal conspiracy and criminal intimidation.
Bragnesh also faces two other FIRs – one filed in 2019 and the other in 2021 – at Sarkhej Police Station on charges of forgery, fraud and criminal conspiracy. Court records showed that FIR 2021 was allegedly deceived of farmers of Rs 3 crore on land transfer deal.
FIR 2019 Shahpur Police Station booked him under IPC Section 507 (Criminal Intimidation by Anonymous Contact). One at Vejalpur Police Station was filed in 2019 with alleged offenses under the Weapons Act and IPC sections of criminal breach of trust, criminal conspiracy, fraud and criminal intimidation.
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