Disgraced ex-IPS Sanjiv Bhatt was convicted in March 2024 by a sessions court in Palanpur town of Gujarat's Banaskantha district in the 1996 drug planting case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. His conviction came 28 years after he framed a Rajasthan-based lawyer, Sumersingh Rajpurohit
Gujarat High Court issued notice to the state on a 48-year-old man's petition to quash an FIR for burning a police jeep in 2023. He claims high-degree bipolar disorder made him perceive himself as Batman during the act. Next hearing on December 16.