Gujarat: AAP chief Yuvrajsinh Jadeja arrested for extorting Rs 1 crore in dummy candidate rip-off expose

Gujarat’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Yuvrajsinh Jadeja was arrested on twenty first April 2023 as he was accused of extorting 1 crore rupees for not taking names in a rip-off. A case has been registered in the direction of them at Bhavnagar police station.

“Yuvrajsinh Jadeja’s arrest was made at 11 pm on Friday. The other five accused in the new case are yet to be arrested,” an official from the Bhavnagar Local Crime Branch (LCB) talked about.

Yuvraj Singh Jadeja is called a ‘whistle-blower’, as he has been exposing irregularities in aggressive entrance and recruitment exams. But now it has been revealed that he was using his knowledge about such irregularities to extort money. He is accused of extorting money from these involved in a dummy examination candidate rip-off by not revealing their names when he uncovered the rip-off. According to police, the AAP chief and his associates collected over ₹1 crore from two people named Pradip Baraiya and Prakash Dave.

Bhavnagar police gave particulars about this matter by holding a press conference. A case has been registered in the direction of Yuvrajsinh Jadeja and others beneath sections 386, 388 and 120(B) of the IPC on the Nilambagh police station for allegedly siphoning off Rs 1 crore from Pradeep Baraiya and Prakash Dave. Apart from Yuvrajsinh Jadeja, a case has moreover been registered in the direction of his two brothers-in-law Shivubha and Kanbha along with accused Bipin Trivedi and Ghanshyam Langhwa.

Police talked about that when Yuvrajsinh Jadeja was questioned regarding the allegations in the direction of him, he did not give a satisfactory reply and gave evasive options. During interrogation, Yuvrajsinh Jadeja moreover gave some names, the police talked about, which shall be investigated after verification. Yuvrajsinh Jadeja had made allegations in the direction of Jitu Vaghani and Asit Vora sooner than questioning nevertheless the police talked about that Jadeja did not say any such issue via the interrogation.

The complete matter obtained right here to gentle after Bhavnagar Local Crime Branch arrested 4 people for his or her involvement in a racket of supplying dummy candidates for presidency recruitment examinations and board examinations. Reportedly, they’d been caught sending dummy candidates for the junior clerk recruitment examination held not too way back. The 4 arrested accused are Sharad Panot, Pradeep Baraiya, Prakash alias P Okay Dave and Baldev Rathod. They used to price Rs 5 to Rs 10 lakh to ship dummy candidates instead of the true candidates by forging paperwork. The dummy candidates are paid Rs 25,000 per examination.

During their interrogation, they alleged extortion by the AAP chief. As per the grievance, Yuvrajsinh Jadeja and his males made a video of a dummy candidate exhibiting for an examination on 25 March. However, instead of using the video to point out the rip-off, he confirmed the video to Prakash Dave’s partner. After this, a gathering was held on twenty eighth March at Jadeja’s office, the place his aides had been moreover present.

Yuvrajsinh Jadeja demanded Rs 70 lakh and made a deal of Rs 45 lakh after bargaining for not taking names inside the press conference revealing the dummy candidate scandal. After the provides had been finalised, Yuvrajsinh confirmed the itemizing of names to his aide Ghanasyam to confirm the names of Prakash Dave and his aides which can be to be not revealed. Apart from Prakash, three completely different names Rajan Dave, Rakesh Baraiya and Parth Pandya had been confirmed to be not revealed as per the deal.

After that on March 30, he had a gathering with Pradeep Baraiya, whereby Yuvrajsinh Jadeja confirmed Pradeep a diary containing names of people involved inside the rip-off, and instructed him that he would disclose these names inside the press conference. Yuvrajsinh Jadeja then demanded Rs 60 lakh from him to not disclose his determine, whereas Pradeep provided Rs 10 lakh. At the highest of the dialog and bargaining, the deal was finalised for Rs 55 lakh. The amount was paid to the AAP chief’s aides in 3 instalments of Rs 20 lakh, Rs 30 lakh and Rs 5 lakh.

When Yuvrajsinh Jadeja held the press conference on 5 April to point out the dummy candidate rip-off, he did not take the names of those for whom he had collected funds.

Just a number of days prior to now, Bipin Trivedi, a person close to Yuvrajsinh Jadeja, revealed in entrance of the media that the AAP chief had demanded lakhs of rupees for not disclosing the names inside the dummy scandal. He moreover talked about that he had a gathering with Yuvrajsinh Jadeja about this. Bipin Trivedi alleged that Rs 55 lakh and Rs 45 lakh, respectively, had been taken from Pradeep Baraiya and Prakash Dave for not naming them inside the rip-off. He moreover talked about that there was a gathering between Ghanshyam, Pradeep, Shivubha, Kanbha and Yuvrajsinh Jadeja and a deal of Rs 55 lakh was made. In this, Ghanshyam was the middleman with Bipin, whereas Shivubha and Kanbha are talked about to be Yuvrajsinh Jadeja’s brother-in-law.

Recently, Yuvrajsinh Jadeja revealed in a press conference that dummy candidates are being made to look in aggressive examinations for presidency jobs. A police grievance was lodged in Bhavnagar not too way back. It is alleged that Yuvrajsinh Jadeja took money for not taking names inside the rip-off. Following these allegations, the Bhavnagar Police detained Bipin Trivedi.

Yuvrajsinh Jadeja was moreover summoned and was requested to be present to answer to those allegations. However, the very subsequent day after receiving the police summons, Yuvrajsinh Jadeja’s effectively being ‘suddenly deteriorated’. Due to this, he sought further time to look sooner than the police. On the alternative hand, as Yuvrajsinh Jadeja was not present on the date talked about inside the summons, the police issued a up to date summon and ordered him to look on April 21. He appeared on April 21.

In the FIR filed inside the case, AAP chief Yuvrajsinh Jadeja, his brothers-in-law Shivubha and Kanbha, his aides Ghanshyam Ladhwa and Bipin Trivedi and one different explicit particular person named Raju has been charged with Extortion.