Ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt. (File photograph)
The courtroom had, on Wednesday, held Bhatt responsible of falsely implicating a Rajasthan-based lawyer by claiming that in 1996 police had seized medication from a resort room in Palanpur the place the lawyer was staying
A particular Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) courtroom in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district on Thursday sentenced former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt to twenty years of jail in a case of alleged drug planting courting again to 1996.
The courtroom had, on Wednesday, held Bhatt responsible of falsely implicating a Rajasthan-based lawyer by claiming that in 1996 police had seized medication from a resort room in Palanpur the place the lawyer was staying.
Bhatt, who’s already in jail for a custodial demise case, was sacked from the Indian Police Service in 2015. He was then serving because the superintendent of police of Banaskantha district.
The district police below him had arrested Rajasthan lawyer Sumersingh Rajpurohit below related sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS Act) in 1996, claiming they’d seized medication from a resort room in Palanpur the place he was staying.
However, the Rajasthan police later stated Rajpurohit was falsely implicated by the Banaskantha police to compel him to switch a disputed property situated at Pali in Rajasthan.
Former police inspector IB Vyas had moved the Gujarat High Court in 1999 demanding a radical inquiry into the case.
10 information about Sanjiv Bhatt
- A former IPS officer of the Gujarat-cadre, 60-year-old Sanjiv Bhatt is thought for his position in submitting an affidavit within the Supreme Court of India in opposition to the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, regarding Modi’s alleged position within the 2002 Gujarat riots.
- In 2015, Bhatt was faraway from the police service for “unauthorised absence”.
- In October 2015, the Supreme Court quashed Bhatt’s plea for constituting a particular investigation group (SIT) for instances filed in opposition to him by Gujarat authorities. The courtroom additionally lifted a keep on his trial in these instances and requested him to face prosecution.
- Bhatt belongs to a Kashmiri Pandit household and has a grasp’s diploma in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is married to Shweta Bhatt.
- In 1990, because the Additional Superintendent of Police, he detained 150 individuals to manage a riot in Jamnagar district.
- Prabhudas Vaishnani, one of many detainees, died of kidney failure a couple of days later, after being hospitalised. His brother lodged an FIR in opposition to Bhatt and 6 different policemen, alleging that he had been tortured in police custody. Another man, Vijaysinh Bhatti, alleged that he had been crushed up by Bhatt. He was accused in one other custodial torture case in 1998.
- From December 1999 to September 2002, he labored as Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence within the State Intelligence Bureau at Gandhinagar. He was answerable for taking care of the state’s inside safety, border and coastal safety, and safety of significant installations.
- In 2003, Bhatt was posted because the superintendent of Sabarmati Central Jail. There, he turned very fashionable among the many prisoners. He launched desserts like gajar ka halwa on the jail menu. He additionally posted undertrials within the Godhra prepare burning case on a jail committee. Two months after his appointment, he was transferred for being too pleasant with the prisoners and bestowing favours upon them.
- In November 2012, Bhatt and 6 different policemen had been charged with homicide within the 1990 custodial demise case of Prabhudas Vaishnani. On 20 June 2019, he was sentenced to life within the case.
(With inputs from PTI, companies)
