Palanpur: A classes court docket in Palanpur city of Gujarat’s Banaskantha district on Wednesday convicted jailed former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a drug seizure case relationship again to 1996.
The court docket is anticipated to pronounce the quantum of punishment on Thursday afternoon. This was the second conviction of Bhatt in a felony matter — the primary one was in 2019 when he was discovered responsible in a custodial demise case by a Jamnagar court docket.
Extra district and classes choose J N Thakkar held Bhatt responsible of falsely implicating a Rajasthan-based lawyer by claiming that in 1996, police had seized medication from a resort room in Palanpur the place the lawyer was staying.
Bhatt, who was sacked from the Indian Police Service in 2015, was then serving because the superintendent of police of Banaskantha district.
The previous police officer’s spouse Shweta expressed disappointment over the decision and termed it as a “miscarriage of justice”.
The district police below Bhatt had arrested Rajasthan lawyer Sumersingh Rajpurohit below related sections of the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS Act) in 1996, claiming that they had seized medication from a resort room in Palanpur the place he was staying.
Nevertheless, the Rajasthan police later mentioned Rajpurohit was falsely implicated by the Banaskantha police to compel him to switch a disputed property situated at Pali in Rajasthan.
Former police inspector I B Vyas had moved the Gujarat Excessive Court docket in 1999 demanding an intensive inquiry into the case. Bhatt was arrested by the state CID in September 2018 within the drug case below the NDPS Act and is in Palanpur sub-jail since then.
Final yr, the previous IPS officer had approached the Supreme Court docket searching for switch of the trial within the 28-year-old drug case to a different classes court docket alleging bias. He had additionally sought instructions for recording of the trial court docket proceedings.
Nevertheless, the Supreme Court docket had dismissed Bhatt’s plea and imposed a price of Rs 3 lakh on him for alleging bias towards a decrease court docket choose conducting his trial within the drug planting case.
In the course of the pendency of the trial within the drug case, a classes court docket in Jamnagar had in 2019 convicted Bhatt of homicide and sentenced him to life imprisonment in a 1990 custodial demise case. The custodial demise case was from the time when Bhatt was serving as further superintendent of police in Jamnagar district.
Bhatt’s spouse Shweta termed your complete drug case as “fictitious”.
“This verdict was a miscarriage of justice. It was a fictitious case which had been happening for the final five-and-a-half years right here. My husband was nowhere concerned in it. This complete case is made up and I’ll discuss intimately about it tomorrow (Thursday) when the court docket pronounces the quantum of punishment,” she advised reporters outdoors the classes court docket.
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