<p class="title">A local court in Palanpur, North Gujarat, on Thursday sent former IPS official arrested in a case of planting drugs and arresting a man in 1996 to judicial custody. The court also rejected a plea by the state criminal investigation department (CID) police that had sought a 14-day police custody for Bhatt.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The state CID had arrested Bhatt and detained seven others, including the then inspector of Palanpur police station I B Vyas on Wednesday. The CID produced them before Additional Judicial Magistrate VR Charan in Palanpur city of Banaskantha district, seeking 14-day custody.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In custody, the police get to have physical custody of the accused and can lodge them in a lock-up of a police station. However, the accused remains in custody of the magistrate and is lodged in jail if one is sent to judicial custody.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The court on Friday accepted the arguments by defence lawyer the plea of CID be rejected for police remand as the case was over two decades old and a plea in this connect is pending before the apex court. The local court ordered that accused be accordingly sent to judicial custody at Palanpur sub-jail.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the details of the case, Banaskantha police had in 1996 arrested Sumersingh Rajpurohit, a lawyer, on the charges of possessing about a kilogram of drugs that were found from hotel room he was residing in. However, later investigations revealed that the lawyer was falsely implicated to pressurise him to vacate a disputed property in Pali, Rajasthan.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sanjiv Bhatt, who has been an open critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the 2002 Gujarat riots, was sacked by the Union Home Ministry in August 2015 for a long "unauthorised absence" from his service. </p>
<p class="title">A local court in Palanpur, North Gujarat, on Thursday sent former IPS official arrested in a case of planting drugs and arresting a man in 1996 to judicial custody. The court also rejected a plea by the state criminal investigation department (CID) police that had sought a 14-day police custody for Bhatt.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The state CID had arrested Bhatt and detained seven others, including the then inspector of Palanpur police station I B Vyas on Wednesday. The CID produced them before Additional Judicial Magistrate VR Charan in Palanpur city of Banaskantha district, seeking 14-day custody.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In custody, the police get to have physical custody of the accused and can lodge them in a lock-up of a police station. However, the accused remains in custody of the magistrate and is lodged in jail if one is sent to judicial custody.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The court on Friday accepted the arguments by defence lawyer the plea of CID be rejected for police remand as the case was over two decades old and a plea in this connect is pending before the apex court. The local court ordered that accused be accordingly sent to judicial custody at Palanpur sub-jail.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the details of the case, Banaskantha police had in 1996 arrested Sumersingh Rajpurohit, a lawyer, on the charges of possessing about a kilogram of drugs that were found from hotel room he was residing in. However, later investigations revealed that the lawyer was falsely implicated to pressurise him to vacate a disputed property in Pali, Rajasthan.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sanjiv Bhatt, who has been an open critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the 2002 Gujarat riots, was sacked by the Union Home Ministry in August 2015 for a long "unauthorised absence" from his service. </p>
