When Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested by Crime Branch of Gujarat Police in the Gujarat Riots case, he was already lodged in jail in connection with a custodial death in 1990.
Two days after the arrest of retired DGP RB Sreekumar, and 'activist' Teesta Setalvad, the Ahmedabad Crime Branch has sought the remand of jailed former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt
Some far-left trolls and pro-Congress handles have claimed that Sanjiv Bhatt is a Kashmiri Pandit too, as an indirect sly against the Modi government which is promoting the movie The Kashmir Files.