Protect Sanjiv Bhatt's family: Home ministry to Modi government

NEW DELHI: Union home ministry on Tuesday asked the Gujarat government to provide adequate security to suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, his wife Shweta Bhatt and other family members on the basis of threat perception.

Shweta Bhatt wrote to home minister P Chidambaram, requesting for security amid apprehension of grave threat on her husband's and family members' lives.

Bhatt was arrested on September 30 in connection with an FIR filed against him by state police constable KD Pant in June for allegedly threatening him and making him sign false affidavits regarding a meeting by chief minister Narendra Modi on February 27, 2002 after the Godhra train incident.

The union home ministry is meanwhile also independently assessing the threat perception.

The home ministry has asked the state to provide the Bhatts adequate security on the basis of "local" threat perception.