The Supreme Court has adjourned hearing on a plea filed by former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt challenging the Gujarat High Court’s order, which declined to suspend his sentence of life imprisonment awarded by a Jamnagar court on June 20, 2019, in a 30-year-old custodial death case of 1990.
A three-judge bench headed by Justices Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and M.R. Shah heard the matter through video conferencing.
The incident pertained to the time when Sanjiv Bhatt was the Assistant Superintendent of Police, Jamnagar.
Bhatt had taken over 100 persons into his custody for an incident of rioting in the area.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in the custodial death of Jamjodhpur resident, Prabhudas Vaishnani in November 1990.
In his plea before the Supreme Court Bhat has submitted that there is a “political vendetta”, against him, and the charges were framed against him without proper sanction from the state government.