Sanjiv Bhatt is a former Indian Police Service officer from Gujarat. He is known for his role in filing an affidavit in the Supreme Court of India against the Chief Minister of the Government of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, concerning Modi’s alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots.
He is also know for his loyalty to Congress Party by making allegations against PM Modi. In the last couple of years, he not only supported congress but also any voice raised against PM Modi either they are Separatists or any Anti-Hindu or Anti-National element.
He claimed to have attended a meeting, during which Modi allegedly asked top police officials to let Hindus vent out their anger against the Muslims. However, the Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court of India concluded that Bhatt did not attend this meeting, and dismissed his allegations.
This time he made fun of PM Modi for his rallies Gujarat elections. He said:
But people thrashed him and showed him his real place,
Earlier, Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has made explosive allegations against a journalist stating that she made compromises to dilute the role of the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots.
In a Facebook post titled ‘A little known story from Gujarat’, Sanjiv Bhatt alleged that the young investigative journalist was forced into changing the script of her book for fear of getting shamed publicly for her amorous relationship with an IPS officer.
Bhatt, a 1988 batch officer of the Gujarat cadre, has not mentioned anyone’s name in his post.
He wrote: “The CBI investigations into Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati encounters were at their peak. The fates of the then Home Minister and the then Chief Minister were hanging fire.”
Sanjiv Bhatt, who was dismissed from service in 2015, said, “A young investigative journalist was tasked by her magazine to cover the CBI investigations and look for a story that would sell. She came to Ahmedabad and tried tapping sources in the Police and CBI.”
Bhatt said unfortunately for the journalist, information from the Gujarat Police or the CBI was not very forthcoming. Subsequently, she tried her luck with an Ahmedabad-based lawyer activist who was pursuing the fake encounter cases in court.
“The lawyer activist fell easy prey to the charms of the dusky chain smoking journalist and was more than happy to share juicy case details with her. Stories started taking shape,” he said.
The former IPS officer went on to state that the journalist wanted more. She got in touch with the duo of IPS officers from the CBI who were leading the investigation.
“The younger of the two IPS officers was attracted to the journalist and she was attracted to him. The inevitable happened. Their meetings increased in frequency. Information started flowing easily. The magazine continued getting good stories,” he said.
Bhatt wrote that the journalist and the IPS officer continued having a good time. But little did the two lovers know at that time that the government guesthouses where they used to meet for their amorous peccadilloes were discreetly bugged by the operatives of the State Police.
“All their shenanigans were captured in lurid colourful detail. The tables turned. The young CBI officer was made aware of the irrefutable video evidence against him,” he said.
He wrote that the hunter suddenly became the hunted. Deals were struck. The investigation was derailed. The encounter cases were diluted to the point of no repair.
According to Bhatt, the word eventually reached the CBI bosses in Delhi and the IPS officer was removed from the investigation and repatriated to his parent cadre state. But irreparable damage had already been done.
He said, “The young journalist was given a choice – face public shaming along with the officer or help in derailing the efforts of the lawyer activist who was heavily besotted with her easy charms. She chose the latter.”
Bhatt alleged that things moved as planned. The woman journalist was used to collect dirt on the lawyer activist. The scandalous dirt was smartly used to deter the lawyer activist from pursuing certain sensitive issues before the Commission of Inquiry that was inquiring into the Gujarat riots of 2002.
Further narrating the course of events, Bhatt alleged that the lawyer activist eventually withdrew himself completely from the Commission proceedings despite being the only legal representative of the hapless victims.
“The young journalist,” according to Bhatt, “wrote a titillating and fanciful account of her journalistic exploits in Gujarat, but took exceptional care to gloss over the role of the then Chief Minister in engineering the Gujarat carnage. In return, the book was allowed to be published and publicised without any hindrance whatsoever.”
He said what could have been an “end-of-the-political-road situation for the political duo” from Gujarat, and “end-of-the-journalistic-road situation for the young investigative journalist” became a win-win situation for both sides.
In the end Bhatt wrote hoping that this helps some people to connect the dots.
Bhatt had filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court in April 2011 accusing Modi of “complicity in the 2002 riots” in which over 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed. Bhatt was suspended by the Gujarat government after he filed the affidavit. Later, he was dismissed from service.
