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
Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested by the Gujarat CID on the accusation of falsely implicating the lawyer Sumersingh Rajpurohit by planting opium in a hotel room in Palanpur.
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Rajesh Bindal ruled that Sanjiv Bhatt had repeatedly filed petitions and imposed costs of Rs 1 lakh for each of the three pleas filed by Bhatt