Sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday by the Jamnagar sessions court in a custodial death case that goes back 29 years to 1990. Retired constable Pravinsinh Zala also got the same sentence after both were found guilty of torturing and murdering a 40-year-old man.
Jamjodhpur resident Prabhudas Vaishnani was one of 133 persons detained by police during the Bharat bandh call given ahead of BJP veteran L K Advani’s rath yatra on October 30, 1990. Bhatt was Jamnagar ASP at the time. After his release from detention, Vaishnani died during treatment on November 18 of severe kidney damage.
 

Sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday by the Jamnagar sessions court in a custodial death case that goes back 29 years to 1990. Retired constable Pravinsinh Zala also got the same sentence after both were found guilty of torturing and murdering a 40-year-old man.
Jamjodhpur resident Prabhudas Vaishnani was one of 133 persons detained by police during the Bharat bandh call given ahead of BJP veteran L K Advani’s rath yatra on October 30, 1990. Bhatt was Jamnagar ASP at the time. After his release from detention, Vaishnani died during treatment on November 18 of severe kidney damage.