Challenging the trial court’s order quashing his plea of producing 40 witnesses in a 1990 case of alleged custodial death in Jamnagar, former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Friday urged the High Court to look into his appeal, saying that though the prosecution had cited over 300 witnesses, only 32 of them were examined during the trial.
Appearing for Bhatt, lawyer BB Naik told the single judge bench of Justice Sonia Gokani that even among the 32 witnesses who were examined, contradictions have emerged in the accounts of five witnesses.