Serving life term, Sanjiv Bhatt moves revision petition in Gujarat HC in another custodial death case

One of the detainees in the incident, Prabhudas Vaishnani, had succumbed at a hospital after his release to injuries said to have been sustained in police custody. Bhatt has been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the case in 2019. In 1992, three other persons– Chitroda, Chetan Jani and Ravjibhai Harjibhai, too, filed complaints of police torture against Bhatt and two other officers named Pravinsinh Zala and Shailesh Pandya.

While two complaints were quashed by the Gujarat High Court, a JMFC court in Jamjodhpur in 2024 discharged all three accused police officers in the complaint filed by Chitroda. The order of the JMFC court was challenged by Chitroda in the Jamnagar Sessions court, which in June 2025, quashed the JMFC court’s discharge order, terming it “erroneous”.

The Additional Sessions Judge R V Mandani directed the JMFC court to frame charges in the case under Indian Penal Code Sections 232, 325 and 114 against all three former police officers to proceed with trial as per law.

Justice RT Vachhani of the Gujarat High Court in an oral order on October 15 adjourned the hearing in Bhatt’s fresh plea to December 8 and stated, “It is made clear that the pendency of this application shall not come in the way of the concerned court in executing the sentence under the provisions of Section 418 of the Criminal Procedure Code and Section 458 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita in accordance with the law.”

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