Fugitive fraudster poses as monk for 18 years, arrested in Vadodara

The absconding accused in a fraud case in Vadodara was arrested in Chandod after 18 years of travelling across India in the guise of a monk.

Chandrakant Patel, who started an agency named KK Motors in the New Sama Road area of ​​Vadodara, along with his friends, extorted ₹2 lakh to send a young man to Tanzania in 2006.

After the accused called the youth at the Mumbai airport but then switched off his mobile phone and went underground. The youth had filed a complaint at Vadodara’s Fatehgunj police station.

Meanwhile, the crime branch received information that Patel had come to Chandod and kept a watch to catch him.

During police interrogation, the accused admitted that at the time of the incident, his mother’s property had been seized by his relatives, so he became a monk.

He was renting a room in Kolkata and was caught by the police at an ashram at Chanod.