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Published on: Mar 26, 2023, 13:02:31 IST

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Gujarat CMO official resigns over son’s links with man who posed as PMO official

An undated photo of Gujarat conman Kiran Patel with his security. Patel has been arrested for cheating, forgery and impersonation as an as an additional director (strategy and campaigns) in the PMO. (PTI)

Hitesh Pandya, a senior official in the Gujarat Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), has resigned over his son’s alleged links with ‘conman’ Kiran Patel, who was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir earlier this month for posing as a high-ranking official from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). Read more

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