Jamnagar, 23 April 2012

Investigation of fresh criminal complaint filed against controversial suspended IPS Sanjiv Bhatt by one Vijaysinh Bhatti has been handed over to local DySP NN Gohil today.

The Jamnagar Police in Gujarat on Sunday registered a complaint of torture against him in connection with a 1990 incident when Bhatt was heading local police here.

40-year-old Vijaysinh Bhatti, a bed-ridden person of Jamnagar has filed complaint against Bhatt for allegedly beating him up in custody, as a result of which he suffered kidney failure.

Bhatti had filed an application before the Magistrate Court in January this year alleging police inaction.

In his application, Bhatti has said that on October 10, 1990 when he was on his way back home to Jamnagar from his farm in Chela village, Bhatt arrested him for curfew violation. He was harshly beaten by stick and was locked up in A division police station. The next day, Bhatt took him to the police headquarters in Jamnagar where he was forced to do 200 sit-ups and beaten up with sticks, which led to kidney failure. On the second day, he was produced in a court with some other persons and was granted him bail.

Due to injury on kidney allegedly caused by Bhatt, he was admitted to hospital in Jamnagar and later shifted to the Gondhiya hospital in Rajkot, where doctors had diagnosed kidney failure. Bhatti said he was then taken to a Mumbai hospital for advanced treatment.

Bhatti had then received compensation of Rs 1,000 from the government but no action was taken against the then ASP Bhatt as the police never submitted a report sought by a local court based on his complaint filed on January 16, 1991. The court had then ordered an inquiry by an officer of SP rank and sought a report in this regard by February, 1991.

The Chief Judicial Magistrate court had recently ordered reinvestigation in this case.