A court in Gujarat's Porbandar city, according to The Hindu, has acquitted former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a 1997 custodial torture case, citing that the prosecution could not "prove the case beyond reasonable doubt." The court ruled that the prosecution failed to establish that Bhatt, then Superintendent of Police (SP) of Porbandar, had used dangerous weapons and threats to force a confession from the complainant, Naran Jadav. The case was registered under sections 330 (causing hurt to extort confession) and 324 (causing hurt with dangerous weapons) of the Indian Penal Code. Bhatt is already serving life imprisonment for a 1990 custodial death case in Jamnagar and 20 years for framing a lawyer in 1996. Bhatt is also implicated in the alleged fabrication of evidence in relation to the 2002 Gujarat riots.

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