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Ahmadabad, July 05: High court said that "Nowadays government officials also indulge in rampant corruption that has led to economic unrest, affected prosperity of nation, and endangered constitutional democracy and governance"
He was arrested by ACB in late 2025 & as per ACB 10 crore land use conversion corruption by Converting Agriculture lands to Non Agricultural in lieu of money 50% cut was going to
Proper "Hisaab sheets" were recovered by ACB where all the records of share was maintained.
The HC found that combination difficult to overlook and rejected the bail plea of the former Surendranagar collector in a money laundering case linked to an alleged bribery racket in his own office, Justice H D Suthar of the Gujarat HC, in a 48-page judgment delivered, held that Patel had “failed to satisfy the twin conditions under Section 45 of the PMLA Act” – in absence of reasonable grounds to believe that (Patel) is not guilty or unlikely to commit the offence again.”
The ED, which described the case as “a system”, submitted before the court that Patel, as the then Collector, held final approval authority on the IORA portal and received the largest single share (50 per cent) of bribes, amounting to Rs 3.12 crore.
The investigation traces back to December 23, 2025, when a search at the residence of Chandrasinh Mori, then a deputy mamlatdar in the Collector’s office, yielded Rs 67.5 lakh in cash and handwritten “hisab sheets” (accounts) that allegedly documented bribes collected for Change of Land Use (CLU) permissions.
The material was shared with the Anti-Corruption Bureau under Section 66(2) of the PMLA, resulting in an FIR under the Prevention of Corruption Act, while the ED opened its own ECIR and later registered a money laundering case.
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