New Delhi, Sept. 14 (The Telegraph): The Supreme Court will tomorrow hear dismissed Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's plea for contempt proceedings against BJP chief Amit Shah, Sangh ideologue S. Gurumurthy and two others.
Bhatt claims they tried to scuttle investigations into the 2002 riots and the Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Ishrat Jahan fake encounter cases.
A bench headed by Chief Justice H.L. Dattu agreed to list the matter for Tuesday after senior counsel Indira Jaising and Kapil Sibal, appearing for Bhatt, requested an early hearing and forming of a special investigation team to probe the allegations.
On suspension since September 12, 2011, Bhatt was formally sacked by the Gujarat government last month for alleged insubordination and prolonged absence from duty.
Bhatt has filed transcripts of purported email messages that he alleged Shah, Gurumurthy, G.C. Murmu, then principal secretary to the Gujarat chief minister, and Vijay Badekha, then undersecretary in the home department, sent to Tushar Mehta, the state's then advocate-general. Mehta is now an additional solicitor-general for the Union government in the top court.
Bhatt said the purported emails "explicitly show the participation of persons described above in correspondences that can only be understood as those aimed at subverting justice".
