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Bengaluru: Basaveshwara Nagar police on Saturday detained Union Minister Pralhad Joshi’s brother Gopal Joshi and nephew Ajay Joshi from Maharashtra for allegedly cheating a former MLA by offering a ticket in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Senior police officers confirmed to DH that Gopal and his son Ajay were detained in Kohlapur and Pune, respectively. “After procedures are completed, they will be brought back to Bengaluru somewhere late in the evening,” a senior officer overseeing the case said.
Investigators had previously arrested Somashekar Nayak, believed to have conspired with the rest, and Vijaya Kumari, who posed as Pralhad Joshi’s sister using the name Vijayalakshmi Joshi.
The four were named in the FIR registered on October 17 based on a complaint by Sunitha Chavan, the wife of former Nagthan JD(S) MLA Devanand Fulasing Chavan.
The case was registered under BNS sections, including cheating, criminal breach of trust and criminal conspiracy. Sections of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act were also invoked.