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Sanjeev will not be able to come out of the court at present because he is serving life sentence in jail in another case of 1990.
A court in Porbandar, Gujarat has acquitted former IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt in the 1997 custodial torture case.
The court held that the petitioners could not prove that Sanjeev Bhatt had forced the complainant to confess to the crime.
The court also said that Bhatt was a police officer at that time and the necessary approval was not taken to prosecute him.
However, Sanjeev will not be able to come out of the court at the moment as he is serving a life sentence in jail in another case of 1990.
What is the whole matter… Naran Jadav, one of the 22 accused in the 1994 arms seizure case, had filed a complaint against Bhatt in the magistrate court on July 6, 1997. She had said that she was physically and mentally tortured by Sanjeev Bhatt and constable Vajubhai Chau in police custody to extract a confession in a case under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) and the Arms Act.
He accused Bhatt that the Porbandar police team had taken Jadav from Ahmedabad’s Sabarmati Central Jail to Bhatt’s house in Porbandar on July 5, 1997, on a transfer warrant. Jadav was given electric shocks on his private parts and other parts of his body. His son was also given electric shocks.
Jadav informed the court about the torture, after which an investigation was ordered. The court registered the case on 31 December 1998 and issued summons to Bhatt and Chau. On 15 April 2013, the court ordered the registration of an FIR against Bhatt and Chou. After Chau’s death the matter was hushed up.
Modi’s recording and affidavit also given in the court Bhatt came into limelight when he filed an affidavit in the apex court alleging the role of then Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots. Later the SIT rejected these allegations.
Sanjeev Bhatt worked as Deputy Commissioner in the State Intelligence Bureau in Gandhinagar from December 1999 to September 2002. When the Godhra incident took place, he was also handling the security of the then CM Narendra Modi. After the Godhra incident, widespread riots broke out across Gujarat. In September 2002, Bhatt was transferred for giving the recording of Modi’s speech to the National Minorities Commission.
Bhatt is already serving a sentence in jail. Bhatt was earlier sentenced to life imprisonment in the 1990 custodial death case in Jamnagar and 20 years in jail in March 2024 in the 1996 Palanpur drug possession case to frame a Rajasthan lawyer. Currently Bhatt is lodged in Rajkot Central Jail.
Bhatt is also accused along with activist Teesta Setalvad and former Gujarat Director General of Police R B Sreekumar in a case of alleged fabrication of evidence related to the 2002 Gujarat riots.
The Gujarat government had removed Bhatt from police service for absenteeism. After this, he challenged the decision of the Gujarat High Court and went to the Supreme Court where his appeal was rejected.
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