A court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday deferred the hearing on Sanjiv Bhatt's bail plea till October 7.
Till then, Bhatt would remain in judicial custody.
Earlier, in a setback to the Gujarat government, a local court had rejected its application against arrested IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and said it would hear his bail plea.
Gujarat government had opposed the hearing on the grounds that Bhatt's revision remand application was pending.
Session Judge V K Vyas said he was of the opinion that Bhatt's bail application should be heard, even if the remand application was pending in another court.
In an unusual move, Principal District Judge of Ahmedabad district court G N Patel on Tuesday had informally suggested “a compromise formula” to suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt while hearing a government revision application seeking his remand.
He proposed that Bhatt go on police remand for about three-four hours, “answer all their questions” and then get released on bail in the evening.
Bhatt rejected the proposal outright, telling the court: “If you pass a judicial order on my remand, I’m ready to go to police custody for 14 days. But I will not go with the police even for four minutes by striking a compromise. I will not strike a compromise with liars and criminals.”
His fight was on principles, he added.
Bhatt, who had accused Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi of complicity in 2002 post-Godhra riots, was arrested on September 30 following a complaint by a police constable, K D Pant, who had worked under him during the 2002 riots.
He has been accused of threatening a public servant, fabricating false evidence and wrongful confinement.
Pant has alleged that Bhatt had threatened and made him sign a "false" affidavit about a high-level meeting called by Modi on February 27, 2002 after the Godhra train attack in which 59 persons were killed.
According to Bhatt, Modi is alleged to have said at the meeting that the Hindus should be allowed to vent their anger and that Muslims should be taught a lesson.
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