[1]The Centre on Tuesday asked the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat to provide adequate security to arrested Gujarat cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and his family members. Mr Bhatt had levelled allegations against chief minister Modi in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra riots.
According to sources, the Union home ministry has written to the Gujarat government to ensure adequate security for the police officer and his family as per the local threat perception. On receiving a letter from Mr Bhatt’s wife, Shweta, expressing apprehensions that he might be physically ill-treated and that there was a danger to his life from the state administration, Union home secretary R.K. Singh convened a high-level meeting to study her complaint, sources said, adding, “The MHA has also decided to carry out an independent assessment of the threat perception to Bhatt and his family members. We have also requested the state government to ensure that Bhatt’s human rights are not violated.”
Bhatt was arrested last Friday on an FIR filed by police constable K.D. Pant for allegedly threatening him and forcing him to sign a false affidavit with regard to a meeting called by Mr Modi on February 27, 2002, hours after the Godhra train carnage. In his bail application, Bhatt had submitted he was falsely implicated at the behest of some political functionaries and senior police officers.
Shweta had said in her letter, “My husband has been victimised and arrested merely because a few politicians apprehended serious action against them because of the evidence Sanjeev is likely to give in the pending criminal cases.”
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