Sanjiv Bhatt

In connection to the Gujarat riots case, Ahmedabad police's crime branch arrested ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on July 13. Reportedly, Bhatt has been accused for embezzling funds and forging documents. Following the arrest, Bhatt was arrested on a transfers warrant, and has been taken over from Banaskantha jail. In 2019, Bhatt was sentenced to lifetime imprisonment in a 1990 custodial death case.