On Wednesday, the Palanpur Sessions Court in Gujarat convicted former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt for his involvement in a 1996 narcotics case, dating back to his tenure as District Superintendent of Police. Bhatt was accused of framing a lawyer by planting drugs in a hotel room and has been arrested for allegedly fabricating evidence. He is already serving a life sentence in a separate custodial death case, where he was found guilty of causing the death of a man in police custody in 1989.