Former IPS Sanjiv Bhatt Arrested By Crime Branch From Jail

Former IPS Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested by the crime branch from jail, know what is the whole matter: the Gujarat riots.

The Special Investigation Team of Gujarat Police has arrested former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt through a transfer warrant. An official has given information about this matter.

Sanjiv Bhatt was found guilty of hatching a conspiracy to implicate innocent people in connection with the 2002 communal riots.

So far three people have been arrested in this case, including social activist Teesta Setalvad and former Director-General of Police of Gujarat RB Sreekumar followed by Sanjeev Bhatt.

Sanjeev Bhatt has been lodged in Palanpur Jail in Banaskantha district since 2018 in a 27-year-old case in which he is accused of supplying narcotics to implicate a Rajasthan-based lawyer.

During that trial, Sanjiv Bhatt was also sentenced to life in a custodial death case in Jamnagar.

Chaitanya Mandlik, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Ahmedabad Crime Branch said, “We took Sanjeev Bhatt into custody from Palanpur Jail on a transfer warrant and formally arrested him on Tuesday evening.”

Mandlik is among the members of the SIT set up by the state government last month to probe the role of Sanjiv Bhatt, Sreekumar, and Teesta Setalvad in various cases related to the 2002 Godhra riots.

Last month, the Crime Branch team arrested Setalvad and RB Sreekumar.

The two were arrested after the Supreme Court upheld the clean chit given by a Special Investigation Team to the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots cases.

A case has been registered against the three in the Crime Branch under several different sections, ranging from forgery to making false evidence.

Sanjeev Bhatt, Teesta Setalvad, and RB Sreekumar are accused of abuse of the process of law by conspiring to fabricate evidence in an attempt to implicate innocent people for an offense punishable with death