The Supreme Court on Thursday (December 11) rejected a plea filed by former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt seeking suspension of the 20-year jail sentence imposed on him in a 1996 drug seizure case.

While hearing his petition, a bench comprised Justices JK Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi said it was not inclined to entertain the matter.

A sessions court in Palanpur town, Gujarat, had sentenced Bhatt to 20 years in the case dating back to 1996.

False case against lawyer

Bhatt was found guilty of falsely implicating Sumersingh Rajpurohit, a Rajasthan-based lawyer, by claiming that police had seized drugs from a hotel room in Palanpur where the lawyer was staying. The incident took place in 1996. Bhatt was a superintendent of police in Banaskantha district in 1996, and the district police under hi

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