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The Gujarat High Court on Friday ordered the Jamnagar Sessions Court not to frame charges against suspended and chargesheeted IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt for two days from its scheduled date.
Bhatt, who was chargesheeted last Sunday for indiscipline, unauthorised absence from duty and misuse of official vehicle and orderlies, had approached the High Court last month seeking quashing of a warrant issued against him by the Jamnagar court in a case of custodial death way back in 1990.
The warrant to Bhatt was issued by the Sessions Court in Jamnagar in connection with a custodial death of one person arrested by him in 1990 during the communal disturbances following the stoppage of BJP stalwart LK Advani’s rath yatra on Bihar border.
As the newly posted Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Bhatt had arrested one Prabhudas Vaishnavi during the riots that started in Khambaliya in October 1990. Vaishnavi had died in police custody later.
Justice RH Shukla passed the order asking the local court to defer framing of charges by two days after hearing Bhatt’s advocate IH Syed who said that the IPS officer is being harassed by the Gujarat Government as he has alleged the Chief Minister’s ‘complicity’ in the 2002 post-Godhra riots.
Bhatt, who was chargesheeted last Sunday for indiscipline, unauthorised absence from duty and misuse of official vehicle and orderlies, had approached the High Court last month seeking quashing of a warrant issued against him by the Jamnagar court in a case of custodial death way back in 1990.
The warrant to Bhatt was issued by the Sessions Court in Jamnagar in connection with a custodial death of one person arrested by him in 1990 during the communal disturbances following the stoppage of BJP stalwart LK Advani’s rath yatra on Bihar border.
As the newly posted Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Bhatt had arrested one Prabhudas Vaishnavi during the riots that started in Khambaliya in October 1990. Vaishnavi had died in police custody later.
Justice RH Shukla passed the order asking the local court to defer framing of charges by two days after hearing Bhatt’s advocate IH Syed who said that the IPS officer is being harassed by the Gujarat Government as he has alleged the Chief Minister’s ‘complicity’ in the 2002 post-Godhra riots.
