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AHMEDABAD: Former BJP leader and accused in party ex-MLA Jayanti Bhanushali 's murder case Chhabil Patel surrendered before CID(crime) on Thursday. The shooters escaped by pulling the train's emergency chain.With Patel's arrest in the case, the number of total persons arrested in the offence has gone upto five. CID (crime) and Railways DGP Ashish Bhatia claimed that the agency detained him when he landed at the Ahmedabad airport at 3.30am. Patel was coming from Dubai.According to the sources, Patel had contacted top CID officials asking them that he wanted to surrender in the case on a condition that he and his family should be given police protection. He had also asked cops that his son Siddharth, who was also an accused, should be released in the case as he was not involved in the murder case.Bhanushali was gunned down on January 7, 2019, aboard the Sayajinagri Express, near Samakhiyali in Kutch when he was traveling from Bhuj to Ahmedabad..