Shweta Sanjiv Bhatt, the wife of Sanjiv Bhatt, informs that earlier this week on September 25 the Gujarat High Court rejected the appeal for bail in a 3-decade-old case against her husband.
“It is nothing but the works of fanciful imagination, after hearing the matter for all but two days. Immediately on completion of our arguments, the court without even taking as much as a second, declared that the bail is denied,” Shweta wrote in her Facebook post on Saturday (September 28).
“I do not know what is more disappointing, the continuous blatant miscarriage of justice, or the sorry state all our once independent constitutional institutions have been reduced to,” she added.
Sanjiv Bhatt, a police officer who blamed India’s prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi for Gujarat riots of 2002, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in an unrelated 30-year-old custodial death case.
The Jamnagar Sessions Court on June 20, 2019 had sentenced Bhatt to life imprisonment under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in connection with a custodial death in 1990.
Shweta, wife of the police officer, claims that it is a fabricated case against her husband who spoke truth to power. She says that her husband is being targeted for a crime he did not commit.