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  • 2019 Lok Sabha polls violence case: SC stays arrest warrant of BJP leader Bharati Ghosh

    By ANI
    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the arrest warrant issued against BJP leader and former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh in connection with the 2019 Lok Sabha polls violence case.

    “We grant interim protection till May 10, 2021,” the apex court said in its order. The court also said no further coercive action be taken against Ghosh in the case.

    The top court had earlier granted protection from arrest in all the cases registered against Ghosh.

    On Monday, Ghosh, who has been fielded by the BJP for the assembly polls in West Bengal from the Debra constituency of West Midnapore district, had moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay of the arrest warrant issued against her on February 4, 2021, registered at the Keshpur Police Station in connection with the 2019 Lok Sabha polls violence case.

    Ghosh claimed in her plea that she joined the BJP before the last Lok Sabha elections and 10 first information reports (FIRs) were registered by the West Bengal police against her “in false cases”. She said four more FIRs were filed against her after the elections.

    She also sought a direction to the respondents, particularly the Union of India (UOI), to call for reports of the Central Industrialist Security Force (CISF) submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) regarding the alleged incident of May 12, 2019.

    Ghosh also sought a direction to the West Bengal government to furnish the complete list of cases/FIRs registered by them, directly or indirectly, against her.

    The petitioner sought directions for the West Bengal government to give the petitioner prior notice, at least 10 clear days in advance, in the event of their registering a new/fresh case/FIR against her.

    She is contesting the upcoming state elections from Derba against TMC candidate Humayun Kabir.  

  • SC to consider ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea for sentence suspension

    By ANI
    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday listed for the third week of January the petition filed by former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sanjiv Bhatt to suspend his sentence in a custodial death case of 1990.

    A three-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan and also comprising Justices M R Shah and R Subhash Reddy, posted the petition filed by Sanjiv Bhatt for hearing in the third week of January. “We will list the matter in the third week of January in the case,” the bench led by Justice Bhushan said today.

    The top court accepted the request made by Bhatt’s lawyer, Farrukh Rasheed, who pleaded for the hearing to be postponed to the third week of January.

    Bhatt had filed the Special Leave Petition (SLP) before the Supreme Court challenging the Gujarat High Court’s order, which declined to suspend his sentence of life imprisonment awarded by a Jamnagar court on June 20, 2019, in a 30-year-old custodial death case.

    “The HC ought to have appreciated that the trial court did not consider evidence of court witness P Pandey, Investigating Officer, then superintendent of police, Crime Investigation Department (Crime), Ahmedabad, who recorded the statement of different police officers, clearly indicating no beating or ill-treatment of the arrested accused,” Bhatt in his plea claimed, before the apex court.

    Bhatt was sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in the custodial death of Jamjodhpur resident, Prabhudas Vaishnani in November 1990.

    Bhatt, in his SLP, claimed before the Supreme Court that there is a “political vendetta”, against him, and further said that the charges were framed against him without due (proper) sanction from the state government.