Bhatt's wife says her husband being treated like a "terrorist"

Ahmedabad, Oct 6 (PTI) The wife of arrested IPS officer
Sanjiv Bhatt, who had testified against western Indian state
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the post-Godhra riots
case, has written a second letter to Union Home Minister P
Chidambaram alleging that her husband was being treated like a
"terrorist" by the Gujarat police.
In the letter, she has also accused the state government
of using all possible ways to deny bail to her husband.
Shweta, wife of Bhatt, had written her first letter to
Chidambaram a few days ago saying that there was danger to the
life of the IPS officer from the "vindictive administration".
In her second letter on Wednesday, she has said that her
husband was being treated like a terrorist despite him neither
being a serial offender nor a criminal.
She said she has just come to know that Bhatt was kept in
a dingy, filthy, stinking room in the city crime branch
lock-up after he was arrested on September 30. She further
alleged that he was kept in the room with hardened criminals
without food or water.
Shweta has also enclosed a CD which, according to her,
contains video footage purportedly showing how Bhatt was being
"ill-treated".
Bhatt was arrested on the basis of an FIR filed against
him by police constable K D Pant for allegedly threatening and
forcing him to sign a false affidavit with regard to a meeting
called by Chief Minister Narendra Modi on February 27, 2002,
hours after the Godhra train carnage.
Expressing apprehensions about more false cases being
concocted against the arrested IPS officer, his wife has once
again raised the point of his safety saying, "I am terribly
concerned about the life and liberty of my husband."
She said looking at the treatment given to Bhatt so far,
Gujarat police could go out of the way to victimise him
further.
In the letter, she has also alleged that Gujarat police
had used derogatory and insulting language while conducting
searches at her residence after Bhatt's arrest.
In an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, Bhatt had
alleged that Modi had asked the police at a meeting after the
Godhra train carnage to allow the majority community to vent
their anger against Muslims. PTI PB
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