Sanjiv Bhatt granted bail by the local court
AHMEDABAD: On Monday Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt got bail from a local court in Ahmedabad seventeen days after he was arrested.
The IPS officer had been jailed for allegedly fabricating evidence to show that he was at the crucial meeting held at chief minister Narendra Modi’s home on February 27, 2002, in which Modi had allegedly told cops to go easy on rioters.
It was a victory for the victims of Gujarat riots said Bhatt. He was glad that the rule of law had prevailed.
Bhatt was given bail by session judge V K Vyas on the condition that he would remain present when called for and would cooperate in the investigation. In his 30-page long order, the judge said that the behaviour of the complainant was unnatural.
On October 3, Bhatt moved a bail plea which the government opposed.
Advocate I H Syed alleged the government aimed to destroy the evidence. The arrest had been made only so that the government could get evidence about the 2002 riots that the cop had collected against the government, Bhatt’s lawyer told the court during the hearing.
