User:Tinpisa/Sanjiv Bhatt

Sanjiv Bhatt is an officer of the 1988 batch of the Gujarat cadre of the Indian Police Service. During the 2002 Gujarat riots, he was the Deputy Commissioner Intelligence in Ahmedabad. He has submitted an 18-page affadavit to the Supreme Court of India in April 2011 that he attended a meeting in the residence of the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, on 27th February 2002, along with other senior police officers barely hours before the Gujarat riots, where the Chief Minister asked the police officers to give anti-social mob a free hand to "teach a lesson to Muslims."

He was suspended by the Gujarat Government in August 2011. He has been served with a chargesheet, and subsequently arrested on 30 September 2011.