Ahmedabad, Oct 07: Gujarat Police has arrested eight persons , including two women, from here and Mumbai for hatching a conspiracy to eliminate state Law Minister Ashok Bhatt and MLA Bharat Barot . The persons arrested have links with Chhota Shakeel and Dawood Ibrahim, crime branch officials told reporters here today.

The conspirators are believed to have met in Bangladesh to draw up a plan, which they meant to carry out in Gujarat.

Bhatt has been in thick of affairs during post-Godhra riots. He and state home minister Amit Shah had met Narendra Modi and then Union minister Sushma Swaraj to clarify the government’s stand in the Best Bakery case after being accused of laxity by the Supreme Court. Bureau Report