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IPS Officer Sanjiv Bhatt acquitted in 1997 custodial torture case

By IndianMandarins- 09 Dec 2024
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Gandhinagar (09.12.2024):  A court in Porbandar has acquitted former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a 1997 custodial torture case citing that prosecution failed to "prove the case beyond reasonable doubt". Bhatt was the then superintendent of police (SP) of Porbandar. Bhatt was earlier sentenced to life imprisonment in a 1990 custodial death case in Jamnagar and 20 years in jail in a 1996 case relating to planting drugs to frame a Rajasthan-based lawyer in Palanpur. He is currently lodged in the Rajkot Central Jail. It also noted that the sanction required to prosecute the accused, who was then a public servant discharging his duty, had not been obtained in the case. 
Bhatt and constable Vajubhai Chau, against whom the case was abated after his death, were charged under sections 330 (causing hurt to extort confession) and 324 (causing hurt with dangerous weapons) of the Indian Penal Code on the complaint by one Naran Jadav for causing him physical and mental torture in police custody to extract confession in a Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) and Arms Act case.

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