Ahmedabad: Shweta Bhatt, the wife of suspended IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt, on Wednesday wrote a second letter to Home Minister P Chidambaram, seeking more security for her husband.
She alleged that her husband was being treated like a "terrorist" by the Gujarat police.
In the letter, she also accused the state government of using all possible ways to deny bail to her husband.
Shweta had written her first letter to Chidambaram on Monday claiming threat to the life of the IPS officer.
In her second letter on Wednesday, she said she “has just come to know that Bhatt is kept in a dingy, filthy, stinking room in the city crime branch lock-up” after he was arrested on September 30. She further alleged that he was kept in the room with hardened criminals without food and water.
Shweta also enclosed a CD that, according to her, contains video footage purportedly showing how Bhatt was being "ill-treated".
Bhatt was arrested on the basis of an FIR filed against him by police constable K D Pant for allegedly threatening and forcing him to sign a false affidavit with regard to a meeting called by Chief Minister Narendra Modi on February 27, 2002, hours after the Godhra train carnage.
Expressing apprehensions about more false cases being concocted against the arrested IPS officer, his wife has once again raised the point of his safety saying, "I am terribly concerned about the life and liberty of my husband."
She said looking at the treatment given to Bhatt so far, Gujarat police could go out of the way to victimise him further.
In the letter, she has also alleged that Gujarat police had used derogatory and insulting language while conducting searches at her residence after Bhatt's arrest.
In an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, Bhatt had alleged that Modi had asked the police at a meeting after the Godhra train carnage to go slow on the rioters.
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