Just in: Suspended police officer Sanjeev Bhatt has been detained in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Bhatt today told the Gujarat High Court that Chief Minister Narendra Modi and former Minister of State for Home Amit Shah had tried to pressurise him to destroy crucial evidence in the Haren Pandya murder case. Bhatt had also charged Modi with abetting the 2002 riots.

He was arrested on the basis of an affidavit filed by a subordinate officer KD Pant, who says Bhatt forced him to file the affidavit against Modi.

The allegations were made by Bhatt in an additional affidavit filed by him on Septmeber 27, before Justice R H Shukla, who was hearing an alleged police atrocity case against the IPS officer in Jamnagar district.

Bhatt has sought relief in the case. In the affidavit, Bhatt claimed while he was posted as Superintendent of Sabarmati Central Prison in November 2003, he had come across important documentary evidence in connection with the murder of BJP leader and former minister Haren Pandya.