How Gujarat CM daughter's partners landed a good deal

February 05, 2016 12:23

Business associates of Anar Jayesh Patel, 45, daughter of Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, own a company that's sitting on 400 acres of land near the Gir lion sanctuary in the state -- and 250 acres of that land was given to that company at an official rate of Rs 15 per square metre.

Anar Patel describes herself as a social worker and an entrepreneur. Filings with the Registrar of Companies (RoC), accessed by ET, show a number of transactions between her and her business partners that started when the Gujarat government allotted 250 acres of public land in 2010-11 to Wildwoods Resorts and Realties. Read the story here.

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