As his replies were found suspicious, he was taken to the Police Station, Nishat, wherein he admitted his crime. The particulars of this person were found as Kiran Bhai Patel, son of Juddesh Bhai Patel, resident of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, who was impersonating himself as Additional Director (Strategy and campaigns), PMO, New Delhi. SSP Srinagar immediately sent a team led by SP East to the Lalit hotel. “On 2nd of March 2023, the CID wing of J&K Police gave information to Police about the arrival of an impersonator in Kashmir. Patel answered in affirmative and the suspicions of the CID officer grew stronger, so he reported it to his seniors.

The officer went to Patel and talked about a false location in PMO and asked if he could meet him there.

This finer detail evoked suspicion in an officer and he probed it further. A report from the news platform Indian Express quoted a source from CID who said that while Patel was talking about details of security operations at a militant incident site, he missed a crucial detail, unlike many other police jurisdictions, the J&K CID handles intelligence. Patel actually worked smartly and kept his real identity secret from senior bureaucrats of the administration, until one officer of the J&K CID got suspicious.

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