Ahmedabad, September 5: Dismissed IPS Officer Sanjiv Bhatt has been arrested after he was detained by the Gujarat CID with seven others on Wednesday. The former IPS officer has been arrested in the 1998 Palanpur Drug Planting case where Bhatt allegedly filed a false complaint against a lawyer. The officer, who has been arrested in the 22-year old case, will now be produced in the court, according to media reports.

News agency ANI tweeted about the arrest of the suspended IPS officer. Check the tweet below:

Sanjiv Bhatt has been a vocal critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP in Gujarat and Centre. "The entire top brass of BJP is hyperventilating about the Kolkata bridge collapse.Incidentally, they didn't utter even a pipsqueak when a flyover collapsed in Varanasi," tweeted the officer after the Majherhat bridge collapse in Kolkata on Tuesday.

Sanjiv Bhatt, who had taken on former Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, was sacked by the Union Home Ministry in August 2015 for "unauthorised absence" from service.

Bhatt crossed swords with the Modi government earlier when he 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 instructed top police officers to allow the Hindus to "vent out their anger" after the Godhra train tragedy. However, this claim was rejected by the apex-court appointed Special Investigation Team. (With Agency Input)

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