IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt terminated from service

Thakur, an IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh Cadre, in a letter sent to the Gujarat Home Secretary PK Taneja on Tuesday stated, “It seems the privacy of Bhatt has been pierced into and publicly divulged which does not seem appropriate, legally and ethically”. It sought his explanation for allegedly having extra-marital relationship; Bhatt denied that the man in the video was him. “Once again eligible for employment. smile emoticon Any takers?” All I have to say is that, at the age of 24, with a passion and fire that still continues to rage in me, I chose the Indian Police Service because I saw it as a career that would add action and goal to my life. This was expected. They have been conducting a completely ex-parte inquiry.

Bhatt had also said since he was to appear before the Nanavati Commission, which was investigating the 2002 riots related cases, his presence was required in Ahmedabad. Be that as it may, the bottom-line is that if the Government of the day does not require my services…so be it. I pray to God that he may continue to kindle and stoke the passion and fire that has possessed me all these years.

“A lot can be done (against the move) but whether it is worth challenging…Government does not want me, why I should be so keen that I want to remain in this”, Bhatt said.

“MHA observed that the contention of Bhatt is not tenable as using his tenure at the National Police Academy, Hyderabad, he has mentioned in his dossiers in his own handwriting that his mother tongue is Gujarati”.

The Gujarat Home department last week issued him a show-cause notice regarding a sex CD in which a person caught in the compromising position resembled him. “I can not impose myself on the government”.

A 1988-batch IPS officer, Bhatt had filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court, claiming that he had attended a meeting at Modi’s residence in Gandhinagar on February 27, 2002, during which the Chief Minister had instructed the top police officers to allow the Hindus “to vent out their anger” after the train-burning incident at Godhra earlier that month.