Bhatt was found guilty of falsely implicating a Rajasthan-based lawyer by claiming that in 1996, police had seized drugs from a hotel room in Palanpur where the lawyer was staying.
Bhatt has moved the top court in 2024, challenging the Gujarat HC's January 9, 2024 order dismissing his appeal against the conviction and life imprisonment.
The court held that the prosecution could not prove the case beyond reasonable doubt that the complainant was forced to confess to the crime and made to surrender by voluntarily causing pain using da ...
Bhatt, who is already behind bars in a custodial death case, was held guilty of falsely implicating a Rajasthan-based lawyer by claiming that police had seized drugs from his possession.
Bhatt has filed an appeal in the high court challenging his conviction in the custodial death case of Prabhudas Vaishnani, who was caught by Jamnagar police after a communal riot.
