“In Modi’s India, Pursuing Justice Is A Criminal Offence” Shweta Sanjiv Bhatt Responds (image -facebook/sanjivbhatt)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed three petitions by former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt alleging bias on the part of trail hearing a case in which he is accused of planting drugs to falsely implicate a Rajasthan-based lawyer. The bench imposed a fine of Rs 3 lakh- one lakh for each petition filed. Shweta Sanjiv Bhatt, wife of Sanjiv Bhat expressed her ‘loss of faith’ in judiciary on Sanjiv Bhatt’s X handle on Wednesday.
“I held on to a sliver of hope that there must still exist a handful few, who would bravely and honestly dispatch justice. However, today I stand questioning my misplaced belief,” she wrote on X.
This is Shweta Sanjiv Bhatt,
In these last 5 years, I”ve often been asked if I still have any faith in the Judiciary ….. while the subversion witnessed has been shocking and saddening, I held on to a sliver of hope that there must still exist a handful few, who would bravely…
— Sanjiv Bhatt (IPS) (@sanjivbhatt) October 4, 2023
She said that the fine has been imposed on them for approaching the court “many times”. She then added that she never knew that pursuing justice is a criminal offence in Modi”s India.
“Little did I know that there was a limit to the number of times one can approach a forum to seek justice”, she wrote.
The bench was annoyed of Bhatt approaching the court multiple times and asked how many times have he been to the Supreme Court. The bench also recalled that the Supreme Court in February imposed a cost of Rs 10,000 on him while dismissing his plea challenging a Gujarat High Court order that fixed a deadline of March 31, 2023, for completing the trial in the drugs planting case.
Shweta pointed out in her in post that for the past five years, every petition filed are ‘biting the dust’ in the registry and it was only taken up by the court to dismissed. She askd to whom should they turn to, if the court abuses their power to penalise individuals.
“Reprimanding, intimidating and penalising individuals for approaching the court, is a gross violation of their very fundamental human rights,’’ she wrote.
She said that we live at a time where culprits walk free while honest and brave spent their life imprisoned awaiting a fair day in court and alleged that the one who are in power intends to silence and break Sanjiv.
“So beat us, break us, intimidate us, harass us …. we will keep fighting, till the castle of lies you”ve built on hate, fear and subversion come crumbling down” she wrote.
The alleged incident in which Bhatt has filed petition dates back to 1996 when he was the superintendent of police in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district.
