Home Ministry ticks Narendra Modi on Bhatt
On wife’s plea, Centre asks Gujarat govt to provide security to the jailed IAS officer and his family.
Taking a grim view of Shweta Bhatt’s letter, the Ministry of Home Affairs has asked the Gujarat government to provide security to Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and his family as the per the local threat perception.
Besides, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has also learnt to have asked the home secretary RK Singh to get an independent threat assessment done for Bhatt and his family.
Singh has already given the task to a team of officials, MHA sources said.
The move came soon after Sanjiv Bhatt’s wife, Shweta wrote a letter to Chidambaram fearing for her husband’s safety in police custody that is under the direct supervision of the Ahmedabad police commissioner Sudhir Sinha. After the threat assessment, the Home Ministry can also provide Bhatt and his family CISF’s security cover, which falls within the purview of the ministry.
Top official sources told DNA that being the cadre controlling authority of the IPS officer, the MHA can also call Bhatt to the Centre and post him to any department if it suspects a possible wrong doing and feels that the officer is being subjected to unnecessary pressures.