NEW DELHI,Oct 13: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's plea to add BJP president Amit Shah and S Gurumurthy as parties in his petition about the Gujarat riots of 2002. Bhatt said Shah and Gurumurthy were "part of the larger design to subvert the course of justice", before the SC and the trial court in the cases.
The top court also approved action against Bhatt for allegedly hacking the email account of former Gujarat advocate General Tushar Mehta. Bhatt had requested the SC to set up a special investigation team to probe the then state law officer's series of emails that he said indicated a serious conspiracy to subvert justice.
Bhatt had moved the SC four years ago accusing the then Modi government of preventing him from exposing the state's role in fanning the riots. They did this, he said, by lodging an FIR against him in 2011, accusing him of forcing a government servant to give false evidence stating that he was present during a high-level meeting called by the then CM to discuss the riots.(TNN)
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