Bhatt wife: he’s treated like terrorist

Oct 07, 2011 |

Ahmedabad

The wife of arrested IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who had testified against Mr Narendra Modi in the post-Godhra riots case, has written a second letter to Union home minister P. Chidambaram alleging that her husband was being treated like a “terrorist” by the Gujarat police.

In the letter, she has also accused the state government of using all possible ways to deny bail to her husband.
Shweta, wife of Mr Bhatt, had written her first letter to Mr Chidambaram a few days ago saying that there was danger to the life of the IPS officer from the “vindictive administration”.
In her second letter on Wednesday, she has said that her husband was being treated like a terrorist despite he neither being a serial offender nor a criminal.
She said she has just come to know that Mr Bhatt was kept in a dingy, filthy, stinking room in the city crime branch lock-up after he was arrested on September 30. She further alleged that he was kept in the room with hardened criminals without food and water.
Shweta has also enclosed a CD which, according to her, contains video footage purportedly showing how Mr Bhatt was being “ill-treated”. Mr Bhatt was arrested on the basis of an FIR filed against him by police constable K.D. Pant for allegedly threatening him. — PTI

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