A local court here on Wednesday reserved the order on bail plea of the suspended and arrested IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt till October 17.
Sessions Judge V.K. Vyas, after hearing the arguments of special public prosecutor S.V. Raju and Mr Bhatt’s advocate I.H. Syed, reserved the order on bail till October 17.
During the hearing, which was stretched over a week’s period, Mr Bhatt’s advocate Syed contended that his client’s arrest was politically motivated.
He argued that the arrest was also aimed at getting hold of and destroying the alleged evidence he had, against the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi with regard to the 2002 communal riots. Mr Syed had further contended that the complaint, on which Mr Bhatt was arrested, was false and filed with an ulterior motive, at the behest of some political functionaries.
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Four students, 2 others die in Orissa accident
AGE CORRESPONDENT
BHUBANESWAR, OCT. 12
In a tragic road accident, at least six people, including four college students and a woman, were on Wednesday killed when a Mahindra Bolero vehicle rammed into a stationary truck on National Highway 5 at Manjari under Simulia police limit in Balasore district, nearly 250 km from here. Four others, who were also travelling in the vehicle, were seriously injured. Two of them were admitted into the local Bhadrak district headquarters hospital while others were referred to SCB Medical College, Cuttack.