Articles tagged under: Sanjiv Bhatt

No relief to Sanjiv Bhatt in custodial murder case

January 10, 2024
No relief to Sanjiv Bhatt in custodial murder case

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

First SC and now Palanpur court fines sacked ex-IPS Sanjiv Bhatt

October 13, 2023
First SC and now Palanpur court fines sacked ex-IPS Sanjiv Bhatt

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

SC rejects pleas of sacked IPS Sanjiv Bhatt, imposes ₹3 lakh fine

October 04, 2023
SC rejects pleas of sacked IPS Sanjiv Bhatt, imposes ₹3 lakh fine

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

Petitioner is a serial abuser of legal process: Gujarat HC while rejecting sacked IPS Bhatt’s plea

August 25, 2023
Petitioner is a serial abuser of legal process: Gujarat HC while rejecting sacked IPS Bhatt’s plea

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

Gujarat HC rejects Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea challenging the trial court’s order

May 06, 2023
Gujarat HC rejects Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea challenging the trial court’s order

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

SC rejects Sanjeev Bhatt’s “absolutely frivolous petition”; Imposes Rs. 10,000 costs

February 20, 2023
SC rejects Sanjeev Bhatt’s “absolutely frivolous petition”; Imposes Rs. 10,000 costs

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

નરેન્દ્ર મોદીની રાજકીય કારકિર્દી ખતમ કરવા તીસ્તા સેતલવાડ અને કોંગ્રેસે પૂરી યોજના બનાવી હતી

September 21, 2022
નરેન્દ્ર મોદીની રાજકીય કારકિર્દી ખતમ કરવા તીસ્તા સેતલવાડ અને કોંગ્રેસે પૂરી યોજના બનાવી હતી

નવી દિલ્હીઃ  કોંગ્રેસે તીસ્તા સેતલવાડની સાથે મળીને નરેન્દ્ર મોદીને ફસાવીને તેમને મહત્તમ સજા અપાવી કાયમ માટે તેમની રાજકીય કારકિર્દી ખતમ કરી દેવાનું કાવતરું કર્યું હતું. આ વાતનો ખુલાસો એસઆ�...Read More

SIT files chargesheet against Teesta, Bhatt and Sreekumar in 2002 Gujarat riots case

September 21, 2022
SIT files chargesheet against Teesta, Bhatt and Sreekumar in 2002 Gujarat riots case

Gandhinagar: The SIT on Tuesday filed the charge sheet against NGO operator Teesta Setalvad, former sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and retired DGP R B Sreekumar in a case related to the fabrication of the evidences in 2002 Gujarat riots. Deepan Bhadran, Deputy Inspector General of Police, who heads the SIT and ATS, confirmed to the media that they filed the charge sheet against the three in an Ahmedabad court on 21st Sept. The SIT has charged the three accused with sections 120 B (crimin...Read More

Supreme Court rejects Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea to withdraw of FIR against him

September 07, 2022
Supreme Court rejects Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea to withdraw of FIR against him

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has rejected the plea of former sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt demanding withdrawal of the FIR against him in a custodial torture case. Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt is currently in jail. He is accused of custodial death case of a person from Jamjodhpur in 1990. The Supreme Court ruled that there is no need for interference of the Supreme Court, in the trial court's order to issue the summons, and the High Court's order. Former sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhat...Read More

Gujarat HC rebukes Sanjiv Bhatt for tactics to delay Jamjodhpur custodial death case

July 19, 2022
Gujarat HC rebukes Sanjiv Bhatt for tactics to delay Jamjodhpur custodial death case

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has admonished sacked former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and the other accused while hearing the appeal against the punishment meted out to Bhatt in the Jamjodhpur custodial death case. The high court said that it had noticed the efforts being made by the accused to delay the proceedings in the case at any cost by very often changing lawyers during the hearing. The high court has to conduct the hearing in this case not as per the convenience of the accused but a...Read More