Porbandar: A local court in Porbandar has acquitted controversial sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a 1997 custodial torture case, stating that the prosecution failed to "prove the case beyond reasonable doubt." In his ruling on Saturday, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Mukesh Pandya granted Bhatt the benefit of the doubt due to insufficient evidence. The case, filed against Bhatt while he was serving as Superintendent of Police (SP) in Porbandar, involved charges under Sections 336, 33...Read More

Porbandar: A local magisterial court has formally charged controversial sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in connection with an alleged incident of custodial torture from 1997. On September 30, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate MB Dave invoked charges under Sections 336, 330, and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which pertain to causing injury with dangerous weapons, torturing individuals in custody to extract confessions, and committing crimes in furtherance of a common intention. These c...Read More

Palanpur: A special NDPS court here has given 20 years imprisonment along with Rs. 2 lakh fine to sacked controversial IPS Sanjiv Bhatt in drugs planting case under NDPS sections 21(c), 27A (punishment for financing illicit traffic and harbouring offenders). Sanjiv Bhatt had committing crime of planting drugs in the hotel room of Rajasthan based advocate Sumer Singh Rajpurohit in 1996 when he was the district police chief of Banaskantha. CID Crime had arrested Bhatt and then Police Inspector...Read More

Palanpur: Controversial former IPS Officer Sanjiv Bhatt has been convicted in the 1996 drug planting case. He was presented before the Palanpur sessions court today, where the conviction was pronounced. Additional district and sessions judge J N Thakkar found Sanjiv Bhatt guilty of falsely accusing a lawyer from Rajasthan. The court is expected to announce the sentencing decision on Thursday afternoon. This marks the second time Sanjiv Bhatt has been convicted in a criminal case, following hi...Read More

Gandhinagar: Sacked controversial suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has once again failed to get relief from court. The Gujarat High Court rejected Bhatt's plea against life sentence in a 33 years old custodial torture case. The Gujarat High Court upheld the trial court verdict. Bhatt was Superintendent of Police in Jamnagar in 1990 when he arrested over 100 persons under TADA and tortured some of them in custody, among whom one person died. Bhatt is in jail in drugs planting case in ...Read More

Banaskantha: A local court in here in Palanpur has imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on the sacked controversial IPS officer, Sanjiv Bhatt, for submitting a repetitive application that concealed facts from the court. This comes just a week after the Supreme Court fined him Rs 3 lakh for submitting applications related to the 1996 alleged drug planting case. Bhatt's application had requested the court to revoke the pardon granted to his co-accused, former DySP I B Vyas, who had turned into an approve...Read More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India rejected three petitions of former controversial IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and imposed a fine totalling 3 lakhs on him on Tuesday. Bhatt had accused a lower court judge of bias during his trial in a case involving alleged drug planting. Justices Vikram Nath and Rajesh Bindal, presiding over the case, imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh for each of the three separate petitions and directed Bhatt to deposit this amount with the Gujarat High Court Advocates Association....Read More

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has dismissed the petition of controversial Ex-IPS Officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who sought the transfer of his trial in the alleged 1996 drug planting case from Palanpur to another court. Justice Samir Dave, while declining Bhatt's plea, also rejected his challenge against three orders issued by the trial court on June 13. Bhatt's request for audio and video recordings of court proceedings at his expense was turned down by the lower court in that order. Justice Sami...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court on Friday rejected two petitions filed by controversial sacked former IPS Sanjiv Bhatt challenging the orders of a trial court in Palanpur regarding a drug planting case from 1996. Bhatt had challenged the trial court's order that rejected his request to call certain witnesses for cross-examination. The court rejected the request, citing the completion of the prosecution's evidence and a deadline to finish the trial. Justice Gita Gopi upheld the trial court's...Read More

New Delhi: A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court today dismissed a petition filed by former sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and also imposed a cost of Rs. 10,000 on Bhatt for filing an "absolutely frivolous petition". Bhatt will need to deposit the amount with the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority. Bhatt had challenged a Gujarat High Court order which set a deadline for the completion of a trial in a 1996 drug planting case. Controversial former IPS officer Bhatt was sacked from service in...Read More