The Supreme Court today refused to quash proceedings against suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a 21-year-old alleged custodial death case.
The bench of justices comprising of B.S. Chauhan and T.S. Thakur refused to grant any relief to the Gujarat-cadre officer against the State High Court's order, which had dismissed his plea of quashing the proceedings which was set forth against him in regard to the custodial death case.
The custodial death case dates back to 1990 when Bhatt was posted as Additional Superintendent of police in Jamnagar.
He had detained around 150 persons during a communal riot in Jam Jodhpur town. Prabhudas Vaishnani, one among the arrested persons, had died in a hospital soon after his release.
Vaishnani's brother had then lodged an FIR against Bhatt and six other police officials accusing them of killing his brother by torturing him while in detention.
The High Court later on allowed the Trial Court to frame charges against Bhatt in the case, while rejecting on October 10 his plea that challenged the Jamnagar Sessions Court order.
The court had also given permission to the State Government to withdraw its plea to drop charges related to the custodial death case.
The state government's plea to the court to withdraw the charges against Bhatt and other police officials was pending since the year 1996.
The state government, however, refused to sanction IPS officer Bhatt's prosecution.
A Magisterial Court had refused to accept the closure report in the case and the government filed a revision petition in the Sessions Court requesting that the charges framed against Bhatt and other police officials be dropped.
News reported by AR for Newsvision
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