Ahmadabad, Feb 11:- A magisterial court in Bhuj convicted retired IPS officer Kuldip Sharma and a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, Girish Vasavada, in a four-decade old case for wrongfully confining a local Congress leader when Sharma was the district Superintendent of Police of Kutch.
Sharma and Vasavada have been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 1,000 each by the court.
Sharma, a 1976-batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre, had retired in 2012.
The court of additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Bhuj passed the judgment, in connection with the case which was reported in May 1984, on the basis of a complaint filed by one Shankar Joshi.
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