Daijiworld Media Network – New Delhi

New Delhi, Dec 11: In a significant setback for former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, the Supreme Court on Thursday declined to suspend his 20-year jail sentence in a 1996 drug planting case.

A two-judge bench, comprising Justices JK Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi, stated, “We are not inclined to entertain his plea for suspension of sentence.” Bhatt had challenged last year’s Gujarat court order convicting him under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Bhatt, arrested in 2018 in connection with the case, is also serving a life sentence in another matter related to the 1990 custodial death of Prabhudas Vaishnani. During earlier hearings, Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, representing Bhatt, argued that he had

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