Achi news desk-
1996 Drug Planting Case: Time passed and the time finally came, more than two decades after the incident, on March 28, the person accused in the 1996 case of drug planting as part of a conspiracy was found guilty in court sessions in Palanpur, Gujarat. to frame lawyer Dismissed IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt behind bars. The court has sentenced him to 20 years in prison. Gujarat News
The IPS was sentenced on March 28, a day after the court found Bhatt guilty of defrauding a Rajasthan lawyer in 1996 by allegedly seizing drugs from a hotel room in Palanpur, where the lawyer was staying. living.
The court has made it clear that the said IPS will have to spend 20 consecutive years behind the bars. Which means he will start after the end of the life sentence he is currently serving in the Jamnagar custodial death case.
In jail since 2018. Gujarat News
In 2015, Bhatt was dismissed from the police force by the Home Ministry and has been behind bars since 2018, when he was arrested and later convicted in a custodial death case. On Wednesday, Additional District and Sessions Judge JN convicted Thakkar Bhatt under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) and relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code. The sentencing hearing was held on Thursday. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on him and said that if he failed to pay it, he would have to spend an additional year in jail. The former police officer was convicted under sections 167 (making false documents with intent to cause harm), 465 (forgery) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
The court has also convicted him under various sections of the NDPS Act, including sections 21 (possession of drugs), 27A (financing of illegal human trafficking and harboring criminals) and 58-2 (causing the arrest of any person knowingly and maliciously) (including giving false information for conducting a search). After the court’s decision, Bhatt’s lawyer SB Thakor told the media that his client would challenge the verdict in the High Court. Gujarat News
