Overview
- Patel, a 2015-batch IAS officer and former Surendranagar collector, was arrested by the ED on January 2.
- A special PMLA court remanded him to ED custody until January 7.
- The General Administration Department issued a deemed suspension effective January 2 under All India Services rules.
- The ED alleges fixed bribe rates of ₹5–₹10 per sq m for CLU approvals, with collections logged and routed via intermediaries and a “hisaab” shared with the collector’s PA.
- Investigators say more than 800 CLU applications were involved, generating proceeds exceeding ₹10 crore, and earlier arrested deputy mamlatdar Chandrasinh Mori with an alleged cash recovery of ₹67.50 lakh; the ACB has filed a related case naming both.