The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case of forgery and fabrication of evidence in connection with the 2002 riots has arrested dismissed IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, making the third arrest after social activist Teesta Setalvad and former IPS officer R.B. Sreekumar.
The SIT is probing allegedly fabricating evidence of conspiracy behind the 2002 Gujarat riots to falsely implicate certain persons including the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi, now Prime Minister.
The SIT has brought Mr. Bhatt from the Palanpur jail where he is serving life term in a custodial death case in Jamnagar district. He was lodged in the Palanpur jail on charges of planting drugs on a lawyer in 1996.
