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| Shiva Solanki under arrest |
The crime branch nabbed Pratap Solanki alias Shiva Solanki, 40, nephew of BJP MP from Junagadh Dinu Solanki, and suspected to be the main conspirator in the murder of RTI activist Amit Jethava. Shiva is former vice-president of Kodinar taluka panchayat and was caught from Rajkot airport when he was about to board a flight to Mumbai. The MP has been underground ever since his nephew's name cropped up in the case.
This is the fourth arrest in the sensational Jethava murder case. According to crime branch officials, Shiva was wanted in the case ever since Pachan Desai alias Pachan Shiva was arrested last month. He had confirmed that the supari for the murder came from Solanki. A team, led by inspector S M Chaudhary, was in Kodinar for four days and had collected evidence against Shiva. "During our investigation, we got to know that Shiva had contacted constable Bahadursinh Vadher, one of the accused in the case, to eliminate Jethava. Shiva has a number of businesses that were affected by Jethava's public interest litigations," said Himanshu Shukla, deputy commissioner of police (crime). So far, city crime branch officials have arrested Bahadursinh Vadher, a constable with Junagadh police, Pachan Shiva, a land dealer and friend of Vadher and Sanjay Chauhan, a middleman in the case who pointed Jethava out to Shailesh Pandya, the hitman who had taken supari for Jethava's killing.
Pandya is still at large. "In the primary investigation, he has told us that when he was vicepresident of Kodinar panchayat, he was harassed by Jethava's numerous public interest litigations and RTIs. For every work and contract, he was questioned. His personal work of installing mobile towers and quarries in the district were also affected by his work. Thus, he contacted Vadher to eliminate him," said an investigator.
Jethava, an RTI and environment activist, was shot dead by Shailesh Pandya and his associate near Gujarat High Court on July 20 evening.
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