Ahmadabad, March 28: A Sessions court in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district Thursday sentenced former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt to 20 years in jail in a 1996 case relating to planting of drugs to frame a Rajasthan-based lawyer.
In its 700-page order, the court, which convicted Bhatt Wednesday, said the former police officer misused his “office and power”.
This is the second conviction of Bhatt in a criminal case. He is already sentenced to life imprisonment in a 1990 Jamnagar custodial death case, a punishment upheld by the Gujarat High Court this January.
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