The court found the 15 guilty for the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime, breach of trust, incitement and forgery. However, the court acquitted four other defendants of all charges. On Thursday, a Mehsana magistrate court sentenced Vipul Chaudhary, former chairman and former home minister of Dudhsagar Dairy, as well as 14 others, to seven years in prison after convicting them of dishonesty and deceit. Likewise, the court found the 15 guilty for the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime, breach of trust, incitement and forgery. However, the court acquitted four other defendants of all charges. Including the former board members of the Dudhsagar dairy, the other 14 have also been found guilty. In the case, 22 defendants were charged, of which three were removed from the trial after their death during the proceedings. They are Velajibhai Kesharbhai Chaudhari, Baldevbhai Jesangbhai Chaudhari and Joitabhai Savajibhai Chaudhari.
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Four others, Dr. Bipinchandra Mohanlal Patel, Prabhatbhai Khodabhai Desai, Akshaykumar Kunhbihari Shah and Pravinkumar Baladevchandra Bhambi, were cleared of all charges. The 15 convicted by additional magistrate YR Agrawal are now housed in a jail in Mehsana, defense lawyer Rajendrabhai Narottamdas Barot said. He added: “We will appeal against this verdict and also apply for bail tomorrow at the Mehsana Magistrates Court. The trial court has mainly held in its 251-page verdict that the 15 defendants are guilty of causing the dairy a loss of Rs 22.5 crore.”
Barrot said: “In addition to the seven-year sentence, the 15 were also fined Rs 25,000 each. In 2014, a charge sheet was filed and an FIR was also registered at Mehsana City B Division Police Station in the same year. Chaudhary, who was then also Chairman of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), better called Amul, and Dudhsagar dairy in Mehsana were supposed to have decided to supply 22.5 metric tons of fed cattle worth 22 crores for free to drought. affected areas in Maharashtra. The Mehsana District Milk Farmers Cooperative Union, which runs Dudhsagar Dairy, is known as one of 18 unions that are part of the umbrella body GCMMF.
The sentence will affect Chaudhary in other pending criminal cases, including an FIR registered with CID Gandhinagar on 11 December 2020, for allegedly causing a loss of approximately Rs 22.5 crore to Dudhsagar Dairy. Through a bond issue scam, Chaudhary is alleged to have fraudulently received Rs 14 crore from 1932 dairy employees. The crime took place between July 29, 2019 and October 31, 2019. In addition to Vipul Chaudhary, there are many others convicted as well.
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