Gujarat: Former IPS Sanjeev Bhatt, critic of Modi, sentenced to 20 years in jail, fined Rs 2 lakh

A courtroom in Gujarat's Palanpur on Thursday sentenced former IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt to twenty years' imprisonment and a superb of Rs 2 lakh in a 28-year-old medication case. Former IPS Sanjeev Bhatt has been recognized for his robust criticism of PM Modi.

Palanpur's Extra and Classes Court docket sentenced former IPS officer Bhatt underneath 11 completely different sections in a medication case. Other than 20 years imprisonment, the courtroom has additionally imposed a superb of Rs 2 lakh. Additionally, if the penalty is just not paid, there will likely be extra imprisonment of 1 12 months.

In 1996, whereas holding the put up of SP of Banaskantha, Sanjeev Bhatt was accused of planting one kilo and 15 grams of opium within the room of a Rajasthan lawyer at Lajwanti Hotel in Palanpur to lure him. Throughout that point, the legal professionals of Pali, Rajasthan had gone on strike and protested for six months in assist of the sufferer lawyer Samar Singh.

Sanjeev Bhatt's lawyer mentioned after the decision that this verdict was already anticipated. He mentioned that the choose and the federal government lawyer brazenly sit collectively within the courtroom room. In such a scenario, what else might be anticipated from them? He mentioned the previous IPS officer was “just fighting for the truth”.