The court, however, observed that the framing of charges against Bhatt would be subject to outcome of his criminal revision application.
A local court in Jamnagar on Tuesday deferred framing of charges against suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt till January 13, 2012 in the alleged police atrocity case of 1990 after six other accused filed discharge applications.
Fast track court Judge NP Solanki of the Jamkhambhalia taluka in Jamnagar adjourned the matter till January 13, 2012 after the discharge applications were filed by six accused in the case other than Bhatt.
These include Shailesh Pandya, Praveen Jhala, Praveen Jadeja, Anupsinh Jethva and Keshubha Tolubha and Dilip Shah. Except Shah, all others including Bhatt remained present in court today.
Monday, Gujarat High court had denied relief to Bhatt in the two decade old case of alleged police atrocity where one person had died, by rejecting his plea seeking stay on criminal proceedings against him.
Justice MR Shah hearing the case dismissed Bhatt's petition saying that there was no need to restrain the court from framing charges against the accused in 21 year old case.
The court, however, observed that the framing of charges against Bhatt would be subject to outcome of his criminal revision application which the Jamnagar court would decide after hearing Bhatt and the prosecution.
According to case details, one Prahbudas Vaishnani, who was arrested during a communal flare-up in Jamkhambhalia town in Jamnagar in 1990, died in a hospital few days after he was released from police custody.
Following this, Vaishnani's family members filed complaint against Bhatt and six others for police atrocity leading to death of a person.
The case was probed by the state CID, which gave Bhatt and other cops a clean chit, but the magistrate presiding over the case did not accept CID report and initiated criminal proceedings against Bhatt and others.
The Gujarat government had then taken the stand that Bhatt and others had acted in discharge of their official responsibilities and filed a revision petition in the session court in 1996 halting the criminal proceedings.
This revision petition was withdrawn by the state government in July thereby exposing Bhatt and others to prosecution.
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