{"id":302280,"date":"2018-09-05T12:29:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302280"},"modified":"2018-09-05T16:45:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T16:45:51","slug":"cid-arrests-former-ips-officer-sanjiv-bhatt-in-22-yr-old-drugs-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cid-arrests-former-ips-officer-sanjiv-bhatt-in-22-yr-old-drugs-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat CID arrests former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in 22-yr-old Drugs case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-302281 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sanjiv-bhatt-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sanjiv-bhatt-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sanjiv-bhatt-534x462.jpg 534w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sanjiv-bhatt-484x420.jpg 484w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sanjiv-bhatt.jpg 586w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested on Wednesday by the Gujarat CID in connection with a 22-year-old case of alleged planting of drugs to arrest a man, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shortly after being questioned, Bhatt was arrested by the CID, while keeping others under detention, Director General of Police, CID, Ashish Bhatia stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It had also found that Rajpurohit was allegedly kidnapped by the Banaskantha Police from his residence at Pali in Rajasthan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Following the Rajasthan Police&#8217;s investigation, former police inspector of Banaskantha, IB Vyas, had moved the Gujarat High Court in 1999 demanding a thorough inquiry into the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In June this year, the high court had handed over the probe to the CID while hearing the petition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The high court had asked the CID to complete the probe in three months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bhatt had last week met Patidar leader Hardik Patel, who is on an indefinite fast since August 25 at his residence demanding reservation for his community and farm loan waiver.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested on Wednesday by the Gujarat CID in connection with a 22-year-old case of alleged planting of drugs to arrest a man, police said. Shortly after being questioned, Bhatt was arrested by the CID, while keeping others under detention, Director General of Police, CID, Ashish Bhatia stated. It had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2838,2014,2026],"tags":[4768,593,4769],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302288,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302280\/revisions\/302288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}