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Former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sanjiv Bhatt has been acquitted in a 27-year-old custodial torture case after a Gujarat court found the prosecution's evidence insufficient to prove the charges beyond reasonable doubt. The court in Porbandar, led by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Mukesh Pandya, concluded that Bhatt, who was serving as the Superintendent of Police (SP) in Porbandar at the time, could not be convicted for causing grievous hurt to extract a confession from the complainant, Naran Jadav, in 1997.

The Supreme Court, in a significant ruling, declined to stay the acquittal of former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba and five others, who were accused of having links with Maoists and charged under the stringent anti-terror law UAPA (Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act). This decision by the apex court comes after the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court acquitted all six accused, citing a lack of evidence linking them to any terrorist activities.