Modi critic ex-cop held in 22yr case

Banaskantha police had lodged the case in 1996 whilst Bhatt changed into police superintendent of the Gujarat district. Banaskantha police had then arrested Rajpurohit at the fee of possessing drugs, seemingly on Bhatt's commands. "In June, Gujarat High Court had asked the CID to probe the FIR lodged in 1996 wherein a lawyer from Rajasthan changed into allegedly booked for sporting 1.5kg of narcotics," said an official. On Wednesday, CID officials known as Bhatt and a few different former policemen for questioning in connection with the case. Bhatt become arrested at the same time as the rest were detained for wondering. A police officer in Gujarat stated Banaskantha police had claimed that capsules had been observed in a hotel room Rajpurohit had occupied. But a probe by means of Rajasthan police found out that Rajpurohit have been falsely implicated to compel him to switch a disputed assets in Rajasthan. Sources said Bhatt had acted at the behalf of a person in Rajasthan, Rajpurohit's native state. A former police inspector of Banaskantha, I.B. Vyas, had moved Gujarat High Court in 1999 stressful an intensive probe. The excessive court had passed over the probe to the CID in June this year and directed it to complete the investigation in three months. Bhatt had in 2011 filed an affidavit within the Supreme Court accusing Modi of being complicit inside the riots. In August 2015, by using whilst Modi had turn out to be Prime Minister, the house ministry sacked Bhatt for "unauthorised absence". "Bhatt has been a trenchant critic of Modi and is vocal about it on social media platforms. The sudden arrest in a 22-year-old case appears to be a clean case of intimidation," the retired Gujarat officer said. The former cop also mentioned the instance of Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Rajnish Rai, who had probed the Sohrabuddin Sheikh come across and arrested several nation police officers. The 1992-batch officer, who resigned currently, become shunted out of Gujarat quickly after Modi took over as Prime Minister in May 2014. He became first transferred to Jaduguda in Jharkhand as chief vigilance officer and later to Shillong as IG, CRPF. In June final 12 months he changed into transferred to Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh to the CRPF's counter-insurgency college.Dailyhunt http://www.feedbooks.com/user/4552303/profile