JAIPUR: Gujarat IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt , who has testified in the Supreme Court against chief minister Narendra Modi in 2002 communal riots case, has been accused by the lawyers’ community in Rajasthan of falsely implicating their colleague in a narcotics case in 1996.Bhatt was chargesheeted by the Rajasthan police’s crime branch before a trial court at Jodhpur on April 13, 2000. The IPS officer’s appeal against the charges is pending before the Supreme Court, while the National Human Rights Commission found him guilty and ordered a compensation of Rs 1 lakh for the victim lawyer, Sumer Singh Rajpurohit. The compensation was paid to Pali-based Rajpurohit by the Gujarat government on January 25 this year.“The IPS officer who is projecting himself as national hero (by deposing against Modi) these days is actually a key conspirator in several criminal cases, including the one against our colleague Rajpurohit,” former Pali MP and member of the Pali Bar Association , Pushp Kumar Jain alleged here on Tuesday.Speaking on behalf of the Bar association, Jain said that a former judge RR Jain was demoted by the Gujarat high court and later suspended. “Jain and Bhatt are friends and the duo jointly conspired against Rajpurohit,” alleged the former MP.According to Jain and other members of the Pali Bar association, Rajpurohit was a tenant of the then Gujarat high court judge Jain’s sister Amribai, who owned a shop in Pali’s Vardhman Market. “To get this shop vacated, the judge, his uncle Phootarmal and the IPS officer kidnapped and implicated Rajpurohit in April 1996,” said Pushp Kumar Jain.The former Pali MP, who belongs to the BJP, hit out at union home minister P Chidambaram too for praising Bhatt. “Chidambaram is well aware of this case, as he was counsel for the suspended judge Jain in the Supreme Court. The union home minister should step down for praising a criminal conspirator who facing several charges even Gujarat,” Pushp Kumar Jain alleged.