Ahmedabad : Amitabh Thakur, the suspended IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh-cadre, on Tuesday said that Gujarat government’s notice to another IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt over a sex video was an invasion of privacy.
“In this case, sadly it seems the privacy of Bhatt has been pierced into and publicly divulged which does not seem appropriate, legally and ethically,” Thakur said in a letter addressed to Gujarat home secretary P K Taneja.
“Take strict legal and administrative action against every person who has infringed the right to privacy owned by Sanjiv Bhatt and has unnecessarily brought a private matter into public realm, bringing Bhatt, his family members and the concerned woman, unnecessarily and improperly in precarious position,” the letter added.
The Gujarat government on August 14 issued a show-cause notice to Bhatt — a suspended IPS officer from Gujarat cadre — over a video CD which purportedly shows him with a woman, demanding explanation for such an extra-marital relationship, according to a PTI report.