{"id":313478,"date":"2019-06-20T09:02:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T09:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313478"},"modified":"2019-06-20T09:02:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T09:02:04","slug":"former-ips-officer-sanjiv-bhatt-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-in-custodial-death-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-ips-officer-sanjiv-bhatt-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-in-custodial-death-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt sentenced to life imprisonment in custodial death 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=\" wp-image-313480 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sanjiv-bhatt-1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/sanjiv-bhatt-1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/sanjiv-bhatt-1.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Gujarat court on Thursday sentenced former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sanjiv Bhatt to life imprisonment in 1990 custodial death case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the quantum of sentence for six other policemen, who were also convicted, is yet to be pronounced, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the case details, Sanjiv Bhatt, who was posted as additional superintendent of police in Jamnagar district of Gujarat had detained around 150 people during a riot in Jam Jodhpur town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prabhudas Vaishnani, one of those arrested, died in hospital after he was released from police custody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Later, Prabhu\u2019s brother had lodged a complaint against Bhatt and other six other policemen for custodial torture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sanjiv Bhatt was sacked in 2015 on the grounds of unauthorised absence from service.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Gujarat court on Thursday sentenced former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sanjiv Bhatt to life imprisonment in 1990 custodial death case. However, the quantum of sentence for six other policemen, who were also convicted, is yet to be pronounced, sources said. As per the case details, Sanjiv Bhatt, who was posted as additional superintendent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2838,2014,2026],"tags":[11303,4769],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313478"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313481,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313478\/revisions\/313481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}