4 acquitted in drugs case

AHMEDABAD: A city sessions court on Thursday acquitted four persons in a controversial narcotics case, in which DySP Manoj Patel seized 15 kilogram of charas. On February 9, 2005, DySP Patel and his team arrested two Kashmiris - Ayaz Khan and Abdul Aziz and two city-based persons - Abdul Hamid and Haider Rahim while making a transaction of the narcotic near Vishala Circle.
More than six years after the incident, additional sessions judge IB Waghela acquitted the accused giving them benefit of doubt, for during trial even a constable also turned hostile.He was shown in the FIR as being present on the spot, but during his deposition before the court he claimed that he was not there at all, said advocate BM Gupta.
The interesting turn in the case came after one Vinu Parmar was arrested with one kilogramme of charas near Junagadh by ATS DySP RM Solanki. Parmar's brother approached the Gujarat high court claiming that the cops were framing his brother. The high court set up an inquiry, in which senior cop Subhash Trivedi held Patel, Solanki and few others responsible for concocting a story to frame Parmar in the narcotics case.
The inquiry in this case had some startling revelations that a police inspector involved in the alleged operation near Vishala Circle made a statement that DySP Patel had kept one kilogram of charas from the stock seized from the kashmiris.