Porbandar, 14 December 2011

The Gujarat High Court today reserved its order on a petition filed by suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, seeking to quash a criminal complaint against him in a 1994 case of alleged custodial torture.

Justice M R Shah reserved the order on the petition after completion of arguments by all parties – the State Government, Bhatt and the main complainant, Naran Jadav.

In 2010, after Bhatt approached the HC, a stay was granted on further proceeding in connection with a complaint against the IPS officer where he and two other policemen have been accused of physically and mentally torturing Jadav in police custody in Porbander.

Jadav had filed a complaint in this regard with the Porbander Magistrate in 1994. Jadav had alleged that Bhatt, then Superintendent of Police in Porbander, gave electric shocks to him, his minor son and brother in police custody after arresting them in some case.