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SC dismisses sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's plea to make BJP Chief Amit Shah a party to his petitions, alleging harassment for disclosures in 2002

The Supreme Court today dismissed the plea of sacked Gujarat cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt seeking a court-monitored SIT probe in the two FIRs lodged against him for allegedly forcing his sub-ordinate to file an affidavit in a 2002 riots case and hacking email of a law officer. The bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justice Arun Mishra directed that the trial in these cases be conducted expeditiously.<br/><br/>The former IPS officer had also sought to implead BJP President Amit Shah, then Minister for Home in the state government and RSS functionary S Gurumurthy, which was also rejected.<br/><br/>The IPS officer, dismissed from service on August 18 this year, had filed the petitions in the apex court in 2011 against the lodging of FIRs against him by the Gujarat Police. On September 23, the apex court had reserved its verdict after Gujarat government had rubbished the claim of Bhatt that he was present at a meeting to discuss law and order situation during the 2002 communal violence at residence of the then Chief Minister.

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