IB man says Shweta detained him illegally; no complaint

AHMEDABAD: State Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials are not planning to register any offence against Shweta Bhatt, wife of arrested IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, even as intelligence officer K P Devda has told police that she and few others confined him to her house for nearly two and half hours on Wednesday accusing him of spying on the family. Devda submitted an application against Shweta saying that she and six to seven other persons grabbed his hand, forced him inside Bhatt’s house and took away his mobile phone and identity card on Wednesday evening .This happened when he was on official duty outside Bhatt’s house on Drive-In Road as noted filmmaker and activist Mahesh Bhatt was going to visit.
Devda told Ghatlodia police in his application that he was actually standing on the main road, roughly 100 metres from Bhatt’s house, when he was forcibly taken away by Shweta and others. Shweta had called up police commissioner Sudhir Sinha about the spying following which Ghatlodia police station officials and senior IB officials reached her house. They tried convincing her that Devda’s presence should not be construed as spying but a routine process of location surveillance by IB when VIPs are visiting.
"We have taken Devda’s statement just to keep a record of the incident. We believe that it was some misunderstanding on her part which led to the confusion. There is no question of spying on the family," a senior IB official told TOI. Ghatlodia police also noted Shweta’s allegations and recorded her statements .