Daijiworld Media Network (SR)
Jamnagar (Gujarat), Jun 20: A Gujarat court on Thursday, June 20, sentenced sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt to life imprisonment in a three-decade old custodial death case of a 30-year-old man.
The aforementioned case happened in 1990. Bhatt arrested 133 people on charges of rioting in the backdrop of BJP leader LK Advani’s Rath Yatra in Jamnagar. Prabhudas Vaishnani, one of the arrested men, was thrashed in custody who later succumbed to his injuries.
The court has not yet revealed the quantum of sentence given for six other policemen convicted in the case.
Bhatt was suspended in 2011 on charges of remaining absent from duty without permission and misuse of official vehicles and was later arrested in August 2015. Bhatt has been in news for all the wrong reasons and was also been in trial in a drugs related case. He was in spotlight for testifying against the then chief minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots.