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Gujarat court rejects former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's bail plea

Bhatt, who was sacked in 2015, was superintendent of police in Banaskantha district in 1996

Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt
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Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt

Press Trust of India
A court in Banaskantha district of Gujarat on Friday rejected a bail application filed by former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt.

Additional sessions judge of Palanpur court P S Brahmbhatt refused to grant relief to Bhatt, who is behind bars since September this year in connection with a 22-year-old drug seizure case.

Bhatt, who was sacked in 2015, was superintendent of police in Banaskantha district in 1996.

The district police had arrested Sumersingh Rajpurohit, a lawyer, in 1996, claiming to have seized drugs from a hotel room in Palanpur town where he was staying.

However, the Rajasthan Police said later that Rajpurohit was falsely implicated

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