Ahmedabad, 10 May 2012

So do we have a Spiderman living in Ahmedabad? And is Sanjiv Bhatt a Spiderman?

For any normal citizen it would take at least 30 minutes to reach Gandhinagar from Manav mandir/ Memnagar area of Ahmedabad. But Sanjiv Bhatt traveled the distance in few seconds, if at all he traveled as per his claim!!

The Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court has in its closure report punctured Sanjiv Bhatt’s claim that he attended a meeting at CM’s residence on 28-2-2002.

The SIT in its closure report says: the call detail records of the Govt. mobile phone no 9825049398 allotted to Shri Sanjiv Bhatt show that on 28-2-2002 the location of Shri Bhatt was noticed at Ahmedabad till 10:57:43 hrs and again at Ahmedabad at 2056 hrs. The claim of Shri Sanjiv Bhatt that he had attended a meeting at CM’s residence on 28-2-2002, at 1030 hrs is, therefore, proved to be false and incorrect. CM’s residence is at Gandhinagar, more than 25 km from his residence at Memnagar, Ahmedabad and it normally takes 30 to 45 minutes to reach Gandhinagar.

Puncturing one more claim of Sanjiv Bhatt, which is again related to 28-2-2002 sequence, the SIT in its report says: his(Sajniv Bhatt’s) further claim that he had seen late Ashok Bhatt and Shri IK Jadeja, the then ministers in the DGP’s office at about 1100 hrs on 28-2-2002, is also belied from the call detail records in as much as the location of the mobile phone of Shri Sanjiv Bhatt was at Prerna tower, Vastrapur -1, Ahmedabad, which happened to be at a distance of 1.5 kms approximately from his residence and by any stretch of imagination Shri Bhatt could not have reached Police Bhavan, Gandhinagar before 1130 hrs.

On Sanjiv Bhatt’s witness Tarachand Yadav’s statement, the SIT report says: Sanjiv Bhatt’s driver Tarachand Yadav has stated that he recollects that on 28-02-2002, Shri Sanjiv Bhatt reached Police Bhavan at about 0900 hrs and worked in his office and did not go out to attend any meeting at CM’s house. On 28-02-2002, he has stated that he started from Gandhinagar dropped Shri Sanjiv Bhatt at his residence at about 1900 hrs However, he could not recollect the details of the various events of 1st, 2nd & 3rd March, 2002 due to passage of time. In addition, the version of Shri Tarachand Yadav about the movements of Shri Sanjiv Bhatt on 28-02-2002, are proved to be false in as much as Shri Sanjiv Bhatt did not come to Gandhinagar at 0900 hrs, as the call detail records of his official mobile phone show his location at Ahmedabad City till 1057 hrs. Shri Tarachand Yadav further contradicts the version of Shri Sanjiv Bhatt who claims to have attended a meeting on 28-02-2002 at 1030 hrs, at CM’s residence. The overall impression left in the matter is that Shri Sanjiv Bhatt has introduced him as a false witness with a view to corroborate his own false version about having attended a meeting at CM’s residence on 27-02-2002 night, whereas in fact Shri Tarachand Yadav does not recollect anything about the events of 27-02-2002 onwards. Moreover, he is a motivated witness, who has got an axe to grind against the Govt. on account of his dismissal from service. In view of this no reliance can be placed upon his evidence.