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ATS wants to take Teesta to Ahmedabad.
The team of Gujarat ATS reached Teesta Setalvad’s house in Juhu, Mumbai on Saturday. The role of Setalvad in the Gujarat riots was also asked by the Supreme Court for further investigation. The Supreme Court had said in its decision that action should be taken against all those who are playing with the law.
Social activist Teesta (at left) was also a co-petitioner of Zakia Jafri.
It is being told that an FIR has been registered on Saturday on the allegation of forgery. The police want to take Teesta to Ahmedabad. A day earlier, the Supreme Court had asked for an inquiry against Teesta. The court on Friday dismissed the petition against the SIT report giving clean chit to the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots. This petition was filed by Zakia Jafri. The Supreme Court said in the judgment that Setalvad, the co-petitioner in the case, played with the sentiments of Zakia Jafri.
Home Minister Amit Shah said – Teesta’s NGO had given baseless information to the police.
Home Minister Amit Shah had reprimanded this morning itself
After the Supreme Court on Friday upheld the clean chit given to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the 2002 Gujarat riots case, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday directed the Teesta Setalvad-run NGO for the Gujarat riots. Reprimanded for providing baseless information about. Amit Shah attacked the UPA government for helping NGOs.
His system was so strong that people started believing him to be the truth.
Amit Shah told ANI in an exclusive interview, “I have read the verdict very carefully. The verdict clearly mentions Teesta Setalvad’s name. The NGO run by her – I don’t remember the name of the NGO – has Police had been given baseless information about the riots. On the question of the police and officials being unable to do anything to stop the Gujarat riots, the Home Minister said that anti-BJP political parties, journalists and NGOs who came into politics for some ideology. Together they propagated the allegations so much and its eco-system was so strong that people started believing them to be true.
Zakia Jafri used to work on someone else’s instructions
Speaking on the role of NGOs in the investigation of the riots, the Union Home Minister said, “Today the Supreme Court also said that Zakia Jafri was acting on the instructions of someone else. The NGO signed the affidavits of many victims and they did not even know Everyone knows that Teesta Setalvad’s NGO was doing all this and the then UPA government has helped the NGO a lot.” He said that anti-BJP political parties, journalists who came into politics for some ideology and NGOs together propagated the allegations so much and its ecosystem was so strong that people started believing them to be the truth.