On October 30, 1990, then additional superintendent of police Bhatt detained around 150 people following a communal riot in Jamjodhpur town following a ‘bandh’ call against the halting of BJP leader L K Advani’s ‘rath yatra’ for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya.Prabhudas Vaishnani, one of the detained persons, died in hospital after his release.Vaishnani’s brother accused Bhatt and six other police officials of torturing him in custody and causing his death.Bhatt was arrested on September 5, 2018, in another case where he is accused of falsely implicating a man for drug possession.The trial in the case is underway.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.
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