Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested by the Ahmedabad Policeās Crime Branch in connection with the Gujarat riots case.
The Crime Branch has arrested Bhatt for embezzling funds and forging documents.
He was arrested based on a case filed on June 24 after the Supreme Court gave a clean chit to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots case.
The former IPS was arrested on a transfer warrant.
The Crime Branch has taken over Sanjiv Bhatt from Banaskantha jail.
A Gujarat court in June 2019 sentenced former Sanjiv Bhatt to life imprisonment in a custodial death case dating back to 1990.