Sanjiv Bhatt,Gujarat IPS officer who took on Modi after 2002 riots dismissed

The services of Gujarat’s suspended officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who had taken on the then Narendra Modi administration on the 2002 riots, has been terminated from the Indian Police Service (IPS) by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India.

In April 2011, Sanjiv Bhatt filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court accusing Mr. Modi of “complicity in the 2002 riots” in which over 1,200 people, mostly from the minority community, were massacred

The 1988 batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre,Sanjiv Bhatt was suspended by the Gujarat Govt after he filed an explosive affidavit in the Supreme Court contending that he “had attended the meeting held by the then Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi who had asked the top police officials to let Hindus vent out their anger against the minority community following the attack on the Sabarmati Express in which 59 Hindus were torched to death near the Godhra railway station.”

Following his affidavit in the Supreme Court of India, which was monitoring the probe by the Special Investigation Team headed by the former CBI director R.K. Raghavan, looking into the cases of 2002 riots as also the role of Narendra Modi, the State government had suspended him and he was also briefly arrested by the State police.

The State authorities had implicated Sanjiv Bhatt in several cases and a detailed dossier was compiled and sent to the MHA seeking his dismissal from the service.

 SanjivBhatt, an IIT alumnus who had a chequered track record in the Gujarat police, had also taken on the SIT, accusing it of “shielding Mr. Modi and top ranking police officials of Gujarat.”