NE LEGAL BUREAU

AHMEDABAD, JAN 23

Gujarat High Court has rejected a plea filed by former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt seeking a review of its direction to the CID to probe a 1996 case of alleged drug planting in which he was arrested.

Justice J B Pardiwala rejected the jailed former officer’s petition last week. It was “nothing but one more attempt on the part of the applicant to create unnecessary hindrances and obstructions in the conduct of the trial proceedings…and thereby, thwart the due process of law”, the high court held.

The order, passed on January 17, was made available on the HC’s website on Wednesday.

Bhatt was awarded a life sentence by a Jamnagar court in a custodial death case in June last year.