Police arrested two persons and booked them for abetting suicide of BJP leader. (Representational) Police arrested two persons and booked them for abetting suicide of BJP leader. (Representational) A year after a BJP leader allegedly committed suicide in Karjan taluka of Vadodara, the Karjan police on Wednesday night arrested two persons and booked them for abetting his suicide. Pinakin Patel, a former president of BJP Yuva Morcha, had allegedly committed suicide in October last year. Patel had reportedly taken the extreme step after he had borrowed money from some people at high interest rates and was unable to repay it. According to the police, they had recovered a personal dairy of Patel and based on the entries in the diary, the arrests were made. The two arrested are Praveen Sinh Ataliya, a BJP worker from Karjan, and Bharat Sinh Chavda, the current Congress president of Karjan taluka. According to the police, in April last year, a case of accidental death was registered and the investigation into the case was eventually handed over to the Local Crime Branch (LCB), Vadodara rural. Police said that the personal diary of Patel had entries only till May 2017. “We had not recovered any suicide note but we found the diary based on which the arrests have been made. The diary had stated that Ataliya and Chavda had lent money to Pinakin. We are yet to investigate about how much money they had lent him and if they had pressurised him to return the money. No other names have come to the forefront yet,” said police inspector Ajay Gadhvi, who is the investigating officer in the case. Patel, a resident of Manjalpur, had gone to visit his parents’ house at Kantharia in Karjan where he allegedly took the extreme step when he was alone in the house. As per the police, Patel’s parents were not at home when he arrived and he had taken the keys from the neighbours to open the house. When his parents had tried calling him repeatedly that afternoon, his phone was switched off. They had then asked their neighbours to break open the door, who had found Patel hanging from the ceiling fan. For all the latest Ahmedabad News, download Indian Express App

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