A division bench of the Gujarat HC headed by Justice A J Shastri had pronounced the verdict on January 9, with the detailed order made public later last week.
India News: AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court upheld on Tuesday the life imprisonment for former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who was convicted by a Jamnagar sessions co.
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court upheld on Tuesday the life imprisonment for former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who was convicted by a Jamnagar sessions co.
A Jamnagar sessions court sentenced Sanjiv Bhatt, who was the additional superintendent of police in the Jamnagar district in 1990, in June 2019. Then police constable Pravinsinh Zala too was sentenced to life imprisonment.
In 1990, one of the 133 people detained during a communal riot in Jamjodhpur town died in a hospital after he was released from custody, allegedly due to custodial torture. Seven policemen were on trial and 2 were found guilty.
The Gujarat High Court today dismissed an appeal filed by Sanjiv Bhatt, a former Indian Police Service officer, challenging his conviction and life imprisonment sentence imposed by the Jamnagar Court...
A division bench of Justices Ashutosh Shastri and Sandeep Bhatt upheld the conviction of Bhatt and co-accused Pravinsinh Zala under sections 302 (murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code
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