The complainant later informed the court of the judicial magistrate about the torture, following which an inquiry was ordered.Based on the evidence, the court registered a case on December 31, 1998, and issued a summons to Bhatt and Chau.On April 15, 2013, the court ordered an FIR against Bhatt and Chau.Bhatt is undergoing life imprisonment in a 1990 Jamnagar custodial death case.In March 2024, the former IPS officer was also sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by a court at Palanpur in Banaskantha district in a 1996 case related to planting drugs to frame a Rajasthan-based lawyer.He is also an accused in a case of alleged fabrication of evidence in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots cases along with activist Teesta Setalvad and former Gujarat director general of police R B Sreekumar.Bhatt, who was removed from police service by the Gujarat government over unauthorised absence, moved the Supreme Court challenging the Gujarat High Court’s January 9, 2024 order dismissing his appeal.
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