New Delhi: Former IPS Sanjeev Bhatt has been sentenced to twenty years in jail. Gujarat court docket introduced this punishment within the case of planting medication to implicate a lawyer. Earlier, a classes court docket in Palanpur city of Banaskantha district of Gujarat on Wednesday (March 28) convicted former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sanjeev Bhatt within the 1996 case.
That is Sanjeev Bhatt's second conviction in a prison case. He was discovered responsible within the custodial dying case by a Jamnagar court docket in 2019. On Wednesday, Further District and Classes Decide JN Thakkar held Bhatt responsible of falsely implicating a lawyer from Rajasthan.
Dismissed from service in 2015
Sanjeev Bhatt was dismissed from the Indian Police Service in 2015. At the moment he was working as Superintendent of Police of Banaskantha district. The district police had arrested Rajasthan lawyer Sumersingh Rajpurohit in 1996 below related sections of the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
Medicine had been recovered from the resort
The district police had claimed that it had seized medication from a resort room in Palanpur the place lawyer Rajpurohit was staying. The previous police officer's spouse Shweta expressed disappointment over the choice. Rajasthan Police, nevertheless, later mentioned that Rajpurohit was falsely implicated by the Banaskantha Police to pressurize him to switch a disputed property positioned in Pali, Rajasthan.
Police had reached the Excessive Courtroom for investigation
Former police inspector IB Vyas had approached the Gujarat Excessive Courtroom in 1999 requesting an intensive investigation into the case. Sanjeev Bhatt was arrested by the state Prison Investigation Division (CID) in September 2018 in a narcotics case below the NDPS Act and since then he’s in Palanpur sub-jail.
Supreme Courtroom rejected the petition
Final 12 months, the previous IPS officer had approached the Supreme Courtroom, alleging bias within the 28-year-old drug case, requesting switch of the trial to a different classes court docket. He had additionally sought instructions for recording the trial court docket proceedings. Nonetheless, the Supreme Courtroom had rejected Bhatt's petition.
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