AMN /
The Supreme Court today rejected sacked Gujarat cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea seeking to implead BJP President Amit Shah, then Minister of State for Home, in the state government and RSS functionary S Gurumurthy. Bhatt had moved the Court on 15th of last month, seeking to make Shah a party to his petitions. Bhatt has alleged that false cases were foisted on him after his disclosures on the 2002 Gujarat riots.
The apex court also dismissed Bhat’s plea of seeking a court-monitored SIT probe in the two FIRs lodged against him for allegedly forcing his sub-ordinate to file an affidavit in a 2002 riots case and hacking email of a law officer. The bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justice Arun Mishra directed that the trial in these cases be conducted expeditiously.
The IPS officer, dismissed from service on August 18 this Year, had filed the petitions in the apex court in 2011 against the lodging of FIRs against him by the Gujarat Police. On September 23, the apex court had reserved its verdict after Gujarat government had rubbished the claim of Bhat that he was present at a meeting to discuss law and order situation during the 2002 communal violence at residence of the then Chief Minister.