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SC dismisses former Gujarat cop Sanjiv Bhatt's probe plea against Amit Shah

| | Oct 13, 2015, at 07:06 pm
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IBNS) The Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea to probe Amit Shah’s role in the post-Godhra riots.

The apex court also dismissed Bhatt’s plea for an SIT probe into the allegation that he had forced his official driver to file an affidavit that he drove him to then chief minister Narendra Modi’s official residence on Feb 27, 2002, where Modi allegedly asked his officers to let people vent their anger following the Godhra carnage.

The court also dismissed a plea by Bhatt that sought an SIT probe into allegations that he had hacked into the email account of the then additional advocate general of Gujarat, Tushar Mehta, and tampered with it.

A  bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justice Arun Mishra while rejecting Bhatt’s plea asked the trial court to complete the hearing as expeditiously as possible.

Bhatt, who had crossed swords with the Gujarat government over the handling of the 2002 post-Godhra riots, was dismissed  in August this year on the ground of “unauthorised absence” from service after being suspended.

He had alleged in an affidavit in the Supreme Court that Modi had instructed top police officers to allow the Hindus “to vent out their anger” after the train-burning incident at Godhra in February 2002. Bhatt had also claimed that he had attended a meeting at Modi’s residence in Gandhinagar on February 27, 2002.

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