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SC notice to Gujarat govt on plea by sacked IPS officer against conviction, sentence in custodial death case

By Jhanak Sharma      28 August, 2024 11:34 AM      0 Comments
SC notice to Gujarat govt on plea by sacked IPS officer against conviction sentence in custodial death case

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a response from the Gujarat government on a plea by sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt questioning correctness of the High Court's order which upheld his conviction and life term in a 1990 custodial death case.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Prasanna B Varale issued notice to the state government returnable within four weeks.

The court also tagged his plea with the connected petitions.

Bhatt has been a bitter critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court in connection with the 2002 riots case.

Senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Devadatt Kamat, who appeared for Bhatt, submitted the petition needs to be examined by the court.

Senior advocate Maninder Singh represented the state government.

The Gujarat High Court had earlier this year upheld the Jamnagar Court's decision, finding no ground to interfere with his conviction.

In June 2019, a Sessions Court in Jamnagar sentenced Bhatt and police constable Pravinsinh Zala to life imprisonment, finding them guilty under sections 302 (murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), and 506(1) (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Other officers involved received convictions under lesser charges.

The case related to custodial death of Prabhudas Madhavji Vaishnani, who was allegedly tortured while in police custody during his tenure as the Assistant Superintendent of Police in Jamnagar.

Vaishnani was among 133 individuals detained during a Bharat Bandh in November 1990 called due to arrest of senior BJP leader L K Advani in Bihar during his 'Rath Yatra'. He died days after being released on bail, with renal failure cited as the cause of death.

Bhatt, who was given charge of Additional SP, Jamnagar, claimed the present incident related to death of Prabhudas Vaishnani happened 18 days after his release from police custody on November 18, 1990.



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