The Supreme Court has adjourned hearing on a plea filed by former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt challenging the Gujarat High Court’s order, which declined to suspend his sentence of life imprisonment awarded by a Jamnagar court on June 20, 2019, in a 30-year-old custodial death case of 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A three-judge bench headed by Justices Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and M.R. Shah heard the matter through video conferencing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incident pertained to the time when Sanjiv Bhatt was the Assistant Superintendent of Police, Jamnagar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bhatt had taken over 100 persons into his custody for an incident of rioting in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in the custodial death of Jamjodhpur resident, Prabhudas Vaishnani in November 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his plea before the Supreme Court Bhat has submitted that there is a “political vendetta”, against him, and the charges were framed against him without proper sanction from the state government. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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