History haunts IPS Sanjiv Bhatt again
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- Monday, 23 April 2012 14:56
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Gujarat Global News Network, Jamnagar
Just two days after suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt got relief from the SC in alleged false affidavit case, a complaint of torture was registered against him by Jamnagar police on Sunday in connection with a 21-year-old incident.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate Court has ordered reinvestigation of the case against Bhatt for allegedly beating up one Vijyasinh Bhatti, as a result of which he suffered kidney failure. The police have booked Bhatt under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for wrongful confinement and causing hurt.
Bhatti had filed an application before the Magistrate Court in January alleging police inaction. Â In his application, Bhatti has said that on October 10, 1990, when he was on his way back home to Jamnagar from Chela village, Bhatt arrested him as a curfew was imposed in the district.
The next day, Bhatt allegedly took him to the police headquarters in Jamnagar where he was forced to do 200 sit-ups and beaten up with sticks, which led to kidney failure. On the second day, he along with some other arrested persons was produced in a court that granted him bail, stated the application, adding that he was soon admitted to a hospital in Jamnagar and later shifted to the Gondhiya hospital in Rajkot, where doctors had diagnosed kidney failure.
Bhatti said he was then taken to a Mumbai hospital for advanced treatment.
Bhatti, who is now bed-ridden, further said that he had then received a compensation of Rs 1,000 from the government but no action was taken against the then ASP Bhatt as the police never submitted a report sought by a local court based on his complaint filed on January 16, 1991. The court had then ordered an inquiry by an officer of SP rank and sought a report in this regard by February 7, 1991.
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