The former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sanjiv Bhatt has been detained in connection with Palanpur drug planting case of 1998.

Bhatt has been detained by the Central Investigation Department (Crime) of Gujarat.

Bhatt and seven others are being interrogated.

In July, the Gujarat High Court had directed the state CID-Crime to investigate the FIR lodged at Palanpur in Banaskantha in 1996 in which a lawyer from Rajasthan was booked for allegedly carrying 1.5 kg of narcotics.

“3-4 months back the Gujarat high court had asked the CID to investigate this case and we had formed a SIT which probed and found Sanjiv Bhatt had made out a false case against the lawyer," DGP CID (crime) Ashish Bhatia told The Indian Express.