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A local court on Saturday evening refused police remand for arrested DIG Sanjeev Bhatt even as his family expressed apprehensions about his safety in custody of Crime Branch Police.
Bhatt, who was arrested on Friday evening on a complaint by his former subordinate Karansinh Panth about wrongful confinement, threatening him and forcing him to fabricate false affidavit, was produced before the Ahmedabad District Rural Court on Saturday afternoon.
The police had sought seven-day remand of Bhatt for questioning him about the allegations made by Panth, who was the arrested DIG’s subordinate in the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) in 2002. But the court refused police remand for Bhatt. Further hearing on the matter would be held on Monday.
Bhatt had earlier this year alleged in his statements and affidavits before the Supreme Court and the Nanavati-Mehta Commission that Chief Minister Narendra Modi had asked the State police to ‘allow Hindus to vent their anger’ following the killing of 58 kar sewaks in the Sabarmati Express fire at Godhra on February 27,2002.
The arrested DIG was late on Friday night shifted from the Ghatlodiya Police Station to the Crime Branch Headquarters at the Gaekwad Haveli, regarded by human rights activists as the place where criminals are kept before their ‘encounter’ killing.
Frightened by Bhatt’s shifting to Gaekwad Haveli, his wife Shweta wrote a letter to the State Director General of Police and the Police Commissioner that she feared for the life of her husband in the custody of the Crime Branch Police.
In the letter, a copy of which has also been sent to the Chief Judicial Magistrate, she has urged that proper protection be provided to her husband Sanjiv Bhatt. She said that the State Government would be held responsible if anything happens to Bhatt in custody.
“About 30 to 35 policemen raided our house again on Saturday afternoon and took away the CPU of an old computer,” Shweta Bhatt told The Pioneer on Saturday evening. Sanjiv was not using it for a long time, she added. The police also raided the house of Bhatt”s 86-year-old mother, Shweta said.
Reacting to the fears expressed by Bhatt’s wife, City Police Commissioner Sudhir Sinha said that there is no threat to arrested DIG’s life. Her fears are baseless and unfounded, Sinha added.
Former Additional DGP (Intelligence) RB Sreekumar, danseuse Mallika Sarabhai and some other activists too wanted to meet Bhatt in custody but they were not permitted to do so.
Bhatt, who was arrested on Friday evening on a complaint by his former subordinate Karansinh Panth about wrongful confinement, threatening him and forcing him to fabricate false affidavit, was produced before the Ahmedabad District Rural Court on Saturday afternoon.
The police had sought seven-day remand of Bhatt for questioning him about the allegations made by Panth, who was the arrested DIG’s subordinate in the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) in 2002. But the court refused police remand for Bhatt. Further hearing on the matter would be held on Monday.
Bhatt had earlier this year alleged in his statements and affidavits before the Supreme Court and the Nanavati-Mehta Commission that Chief Minister Narendra Modi had asked the State police to ‘allow Hindus to vent their anger’ following the killing of 58 kar sewaks in the Sabarmati Express fire at Godhra on February 27,2002.
The arrested DIG was late on Friday night shifted from the Ghatlodiya Police Station to the Crime Branch Headquarters at the Gaekwad Haveli, regarded by human rights activists as the place where criminals are kept before their ‘encounter’ killing.
Frightened by Bhatt’s shifting to Gaekwad Haveli, his wife Shweta wrote a letter to the State Director General of Police and the Police Commissioner that she feared for the life of her husband in the custody of the Crime Branch Police.
In the letter, a copy of which has also been sent to the Chief Judicial Magistrate, she has urged that proper protection be provided to her husband Sanjiv Bhatt. She said that the State Government would be held responsible if anything happens to Bhatt in custody.
“About 30 to 35 policemen raided our house again on Saturday afternoon and took away the CPU of an old computer,” Shweta Bhatt told The Pioneer on Saturday evening. Sanjiv was not using it for a long time, she added. The police also raided the house of Bhatt”s 86-year-old mother, Shweta said.
Reacting to the fears expressed by Bhatt’s wife, City Police Commissioner Sudhir Sinha said that there is no threat to arrested DIG’s life. Her fears are baseless and unfounded, Sinha added.
Former Additional DGP (Intelligence) RB Sreekumar, danseuse Mallika Sarabhai and some other activists too wanted to meet Bhatt in custody but they were not permitted to do so.
