New Delhi: Several petitions filed by dismissed Gujarat Cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt seeking a special investigation team probe into allegations of misuse of state machinery during 2002 post-Godhra riots and the alleged roles of top BJP and RSS functionaries and some senior bureaucrats has been listed for hearing on Tuesday before a bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu.

The petitions were originally filed in 2011 against the lodging of FIRs against him by the Gujarat Police. The apex court had earlier stayed the criminal proceedings against the officer, but acting deparmentlly, he was sacked on August 18.

He had orginally sought a CBI probe, but now he has pleaded that since the agency is under the control of the Centre, there was a need of an independent Special Investigating Team (SIT) to probe both the cases – the FIR filed by a Constable of the Gujarat police alleging that Bhatt had pressurised him to sign an affidavit testifying that the IPS officer participated in a high-level meeting after the Godhra carnage. and the other, allegedly hacking then state’s Additional Advocate General Tushar Mehta’s e-mail account. Mehta is currently the Additional Solicitor General of India.

In fresh applications, the sacked IPS officer had also sought to implead top BJP and RSS leaders and senior IAS officers alleging that they were were part of a larger conspiracy to subvert ends of justice.