Gujarat IPS officer, Sanjiv Bhatt after seventeen days of his arrest, got bail from a local court in Ahmedabad on Monday. Bhatt had been allegedly fabricating evidence to show that he was present at the crucial meeting held at Chief Minister Narendra Modi's residence on February 27, 2002, in which Modi had allegedly asked the cops to go easy on rioters.
Bhatt walked out of the Sabarmati jail just hours after the court granted bail to him.
Bhatt was granted bail by Sessions Judge V K Vyas on the condition that he would remain present when called for and would co-operate in the investigation. In his order, the Judge said that the behaviour of the complaint was unnatural.
Police constable PD Pant had filed an FIP accusing Bhatt of threatening him and forcing him to file a fake affidavit stating he had taken Bhatt to the Chief Minister's residence on February 27, 2002. The cop was later on arrested on September 30.
On October 3, Bhatt moved a bail plea which the government opposed.
Bhatt's lawyer told the court that during the hearing the arrest had been made only so that the government could get evidence about the 2002 riots that the cop had collected against the government. Advocate I H Sayed alleged the government aimed to destroy the evidence.
News reported by AR for Newsvision online news paper
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