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Sanjiv Bhatt
Sanjiv Bhatt can be best described as a rarity in the Gujarat police force. The 47-year-old IPS officer of the 1988 batch last hit the headlines in 2003, when at least six prisoners in Gujarat's biggest jail attempted suicide after the state government transferred him out abruptly.

The Ahmedabad-based Bhatt is a post-graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and among the few direct-recruit Gujaratis in the IPS.

As the flamboyant superintendent of Sabarmati central jail, Bhatt had shocked his bosses in 2003 when he included 'gajar ka halwa' on the prisoners' menu, including for those booked under Pota for burning the S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express. The arson attack had killed 59, including kar sevaks. Bhatt was criticised for appointing undertrials of the Godhra carnage case - like Mohammad Husain Kalota, Salim Abdul Ghaffar Shaikh and Rol Amin Hathila on a jail committee, in the name of prison reforms.

Now, he has filed an affidavit to the Supreme Court saying chief minister Narendra Modi had given instructions after the Godhra carnage to allow Hindus to vent their anger.

Even as people are questioning why Bhatt broke his silence on the secret meeting after so many years, the fact remains that this the first direct evidence against Modi before the SC. Sources close to Bhatt say his career graph is peppered with controversies. When posted in Jamnagar in 1990, he was sent to Jamjodhpur to control a riot where he is alleged to have beaten up some farmers, of whom one died.

As the SP of Banaskantha district in 1996, he was accused of framing a Rajasthan-based lawyer in a narcotics case. Proceedings in this case was stayed by the SC later. As SP (intelligence) in 2002, he was shunted out with his then-boss RB Sreekumar and other colleagues over an alleged leakage of tapes of Modi's Gaurav Yatra.

However after the dramatic end to his two-month tenure in Sabarmati jail, the government sent him to the sidelines. When he was transferred Sabarmati jail superintendent, prisoners slashed their wrists, banged their heads against the wall and swallowed barbiturates, demanding Bhatt back.