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The Supreme Court connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) rejected a plea filed by erstwhile IPS serviceman Sanjiv Bhatt seeking seeking suspension of the 20-year jailhouse condemnation imposed connected him successful a 1996 cause seizure case.
A seat of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi said it was not inclined to entertain the matter.
The apical tribunal was proceeding an entreaty filed by Mr. Bhatt seeking suspension of condemnation successful the case.
A sessions tribunal successful Palanpur municipality of Gujarat’s Banaskantha territory had sentenced Mr. Bhatt to 20 years successful the lawsuit dating backmost to 1996.
Mr. Bhatt was recovered blameworthy of falsely implicating a Rajasthan-based lawyer by claiming that successful 1996, constabulary had seized drugs from a edifice country successful Palanpur wherever the lawyer was staying.
Mr. Bhatt, who was sacked from work successful 2015, was a superintendent of constabulary successful Banaskantha territory successful 1996.
The territory constabulary nether him had arrested Sumersingh Rajpurohit, a Rajasthan-based lawyer, successful 1996 claiming they had seized drugs from a edifice country successful Palanpur municipality wherever helium was staying.
However, the Rajasthan constabulary aboriginal said Lawyer Rajpurohit was falsely implicated by the Banaskantha constabulary to compel him to transportation a disputed spot located astatine Pali successful Rajasthan.
Former constabulary inspector I.B. Vyas had moved the Gujarat High Court successful 1999 demanding a thorough enquiry into the case. Bhatt was arrested by the authorities CID successful September 2018 successful the cause lawsuit nether the NDPS Act and is successful Palanpur sub-jail since then.
Last year, the erstwhile IPS serviceman had approached the Supreme Court seeking transportation of the proceedings successful the 28-year-old cause lawsuit to different sessions tribunal alleging bias. He had besides sought directions for signaling of the proceedings tribunal proceedings.
However, the Supreme Court had dismissed Mr. Bhatt’s plea and imposed a outgo of ₹3 lakh connected him for alleging bias against a little tribunal justice conducting his proceedings successful the cause planting case.
