Murder and other charges framed against Sanjiv Bhatt
November 08, 2012
Ahmedabad, 8 November 2012
A local court in Jamnagar today framed charges of murder and other offences against suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and six others in a 22-year-old custodial torture case. Mr Bhatt is currently under suspension.
On October 10, 1990, 133 people, including one Prabhu Das Vaishnavi, were arrested in the wake of communal flareup at Jamjodhpur. They were kept in police custody before Vaishnavi was admitted in a hospital upon his release November 8, 1990. He died after 10 days in the hospital.
(with inputs from Agencies)
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