Ahmedabad: Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested Wednesday by the Gujarat CID in connection with a 22-year-old case of alleged planting of drugs to arrest a man, police said.
Mr Bhatt and seven others, including some former policemen attached with the Banask-antha police, were initially detained for questioning in the case.
Shortly after being questioned, Bhatt was arrested by the Crime Investigation Depar-tment while others are still kept under detention, Director General of Police, CID, Ashish Bhatia said. Bhatt was the Banaskantha district superintendent of police in 1996. He was dismissed from the service in 2015.
As per the case details, the Banaskantha police under Bhatt had arrested Sumersingh Rajpu-rohit, an advocate, in 19-96 on charges of possessing around one kg of drugs. The police had claimed that drugs were found in a hotel room occupied by Rajpurohit in Palanpur town.
However, a probe by the Rajasthan Police had revealed that Rajpurohit was allegedly falsely implicated by the police.
