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This story is from June 27, 2023

HC seeks govt affidavit on Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea for court transfer in drug-planting case

HC seeks govt affidavit on Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea for court transfer in drug-planting case
Sanjiv Bhatt
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Monday asked the state government to file an affidavit in response to two petitions filed by ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt demanding a transfer of his trial in the 1996 drug-planting case to a court in Palanpur. Bhatt has also challenged three orders passed by the trial court on June 13 on his applications, demanding that proceedings against him should be recorded in audio and video, at his own cost.
Bhatt urged the HC to quash an order of the sessions court passed on June 8, by which sessions Judge R G Devdhara rejected his application to shift the trial from the court of additional sessions Judge J N Thakkar to the senior-most additional sessions judge in the Banaskantha district court at Palanpur.
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Bhatt cited an administrative order of 2018 saying the trial on NDPS charges against him and his former subordinate, I B Vyas, who has now turned approver against Bhatt, would be conducted by the senior most additional sessions judge. Bhatt also alleged bias on the part of additional sessions Judge Thakkar, who is the third additional sessions judge in the Palanpur court. Bhatt sought the transfer of proceedings to the second additional sessions judge. This request was rejected by sessions judge Devdhara through a reasoned order.
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