Shweta Bhatt, wife of incarcerated IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, has expressed concern over the state government roping in senior lawyer, SV Raju, to oppose her husband's bail petition.

She said the government's choice of Raju to oppose her husband's bail plea was objectionable as Raju is also Jagruti Pandya's lawyer in her husband's murder case. Shweta further said that her husband [Sanjiv Bhatt] had submitted an affidavit against the state government in connection with the Haren Pandya murder case.

Bhatt's wife alleged that the state government wanted to get hold of the evidence by appointing Raju as its lawyer. "This move of the state government is an indicator of the fact that neither I nor Jagruti Pandya will get justice," Shweta Bhatt said while talking to a group of journalists. She also alleged that the state government was deliberately delaying the cases.

Reacting to Shweta Bhatt's allegations, senior counsel Raju said there was no connection between the Haren Pandya case and Sanjiv Bhatt's case.

"I'm a professional lawyer and I have no interest in linking up cases with each other. Bhatt's case is about the intimidation of a constable, Panth, and has no links with the Haren Pandya murder case," Raju said.

On Wednesday, speculation was rife about some National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials coming to meet Shweta Bhatt. This could not be confirmed from official sources but Shweta Bhatt said the officials were supposed to come but the Gujarat police didn't give them her address.

Earlier in the day Bhatt's wife was visited by activist Teesta Setalvad and former BJP MLA Nalin Bhatt from Vadodara. Nalin Bhatt said that the Modi government is targeting Brahmins in the state, be it senior IPS and IAS officers or leaders in his own party.