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Gujarat SIT files chargesheet against Teesta Setalvad, retired DGP Sreekumar and ex-IPS Sanjiv Bhatt

Ahmedabad | The Gujarat Special Investigation Team (SIT) has filed a chargesheet against activist Teesta Setalvad, former Gujarat Director General of Police R.B. Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt. The Gujarat government had constituted the SIT to investigate the conspiracy allegedly hatched by Teesta and two others to implicate the then Chief Minister and other […]

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Ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt gets life term for custodial death

Jamnagar: A Gujarat court on Thursday sentenced sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt to life imprisonment in a three-decade-old custodial death case, finding him guilty of murder. Jamnagar District and Sessions Court Judge D.M. Vyas also awarded similar penalty to police constable Pravinsinh Jhala. The verdict came after the Supreme Court last week rejected Bhatt’s application seeking […]

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Sanjiv Bhatt, retired Inspector sent in police remanded for 10 days

Ahmedabad :  The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday accepted the state government’s plea for police remand of arrested former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and sent him and a retired police officer in 10-day police custody. Justice R.P. Dholariya allowed the state’s plea and granted 10-day remand of Bhatt and retired Inspector I.B. Vyas. Bhatt and […]

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Court rejects police remand of Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt

Palanpur (Gujarat) :  A court here on Thursday rejected the Gujarat Police plea seeking remand of former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and sent him to judicial custody in connection with a 22-year-old case of alleged planting of drugs to arrest a man. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the police had picked up Bhatt and […]