Cop, brother booked for abetting suicide of bitcoin trader

A Gujarat police officer and his brother were Wednesday booked for allegedly abetting suicide of a bitcoin trader here last week, police said. Narmada district deputy superintendent Chirag Patel and his brother Haresh Savani were booked under sections 306 (Abetment of suicide), 506 (criminal intimidation), and 114 (abettor present when crime committed) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a Ranip police station official said. The trader, identified as Bharat Patel, had hanged himself from the ceiling at his residence in Ranip on May 18. He had left behind a suicide note blaming the police officer and his brother for "threatening" him for the losses incurred by them in the cryptocurrency investment, police had said. In her complaint, late Patel's wife Usha Patel stated that Chirag and Savani used to pressurise and threaten her husband to compensate for the losses, the official said, adding that the duo are not yet arrested. In his note, Patel said that after incurring losses, .

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