Dingucha case clues: Cops look for CPU in Narmada canal

AHMEDABAD: A city crime branch has a somewhat unusual task ahead, finding for a computer CPU, which likely has crucial clues relating to the Dingucha case, which was thrown into the Narmada canal in Gandhinagar ten months ago.
The CPU belonged to one of those arrested accused in the Dingucha case, Yogesh Patel, whose aide threw the machine into the canal in March 2022.
Sources in city crime branch said Yogesh Patel, a resident of Vastrapur in the city, told his aide to get rid of the CPU to destroy the evidence it contained, after a CID (crime) team began an investigation in the Dingucha case.
On January 19, 2022, a family of four from Dingucha village of Gandhinagar district — Jagdish Patel, his wife Vaishali and their two children Vihangi and Dharmik — froze to death while crossing into the US from Canada.
After the four died, Gujarat police began an inquiry in the case and city crime branch recently arrested two persons, Yogesh and his aide Bhavesh Patel, a resident of Kalol in Gandhinagar. They were charged with culpable homicide.
During his interrogation, Yogesh told city crime branch investigators about the disposal of the CPU from his office in Vastrapur.
“We have been trying to find the CPU in the Narmada canal in Gandhinagar. We will get divers to find it. We have also contacted forensics experts who will be able to retrieve the files on the CPU,” a crime branch investigator said.
Sources in the city crime branch said Yogesh had forged documents of seven others, who travelled to Canada as students, along with the family of four from Dingucha.
He allegedly forged Class 10 and 12 marksheets along with IELTS (International English Language Testing System) and Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program (CELPIP) certificates.