Sanjiv Bhatt, the Gujarat-cadre IPS officer who took on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the 2002 riots and in June was sentenced to life in prison in a 30-year-old custodial death case, has written an emotional letter to his wife and children. In the letter, which he addresses from "the heart of darkness", he thanks his family for helping him "become everything that I needed to be for serving a cause that was larger than all of us".
"Whatever I am today is only because of you. You have been my strength and my inspiration. You have been the fuel that kept the furnaces of my passion and idealism burning against all the odds," Sanjiv Bhatt wrote to his wife, Shweta Sanjiv Bhatt.
Mr Bhatt, 55, has had several run-ins with the BJP over the post-Godhra riots, alleging that Narendra Modi, then Chief Minister of Gujarat, was complicit in the affair. PM Modi, who took over as prime minister after winning the election last year, has never been found guilty and has denied any role in them.
He also faces charges in a drug-planting case from 1996,  that he wrote was built on "completely fabricated evidence", in addition to the 1989 custodial death case.