Last Update: 15 July 2022, 23:27 IST
Activist Teesta Setalvad was recently spotted at Santacruz police station in Mumbai. (File photo/PTI)
Setalvad has been arrested along with former IPS officers RB Sreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt on charges of fabricating evidence to implicate innocent people in Gujarat riots cases.
Gujarat Police on Friday opposed the bail plea of activist Teesta Setalvad. She was part of a “larger conspiracy” at the behest of late Congress leader Ahmed Patel to sack the BJP government in the state after the 2002 riots, claimed an affidavit filed before a sessions court by the Special Investigation Team of the police. went.
Additional Sessions Judge DD Thakkar took the SIT’s reply on record and adjourned the hearing on the bail application to Monday. Setalvad has been arrested along with former IPS officers RB Sreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt for fabricating evidence to implicate innocent people in the Gujarat riots cases.
“The political objective of the applicant (Setalvad) in carrying out this grand conspiracy was to sack or destabilize the elected government… He had received illegal financing from a rival political party in return for his efforts to wrongly implicate innocent persons in Gujarat. and received other benefits and rewards. The SIT affidavit said. Referring to the statements of a witness, the SIT said that the conspiracy was carried out at the behest of the late Ahmed Patel. It is alleged that at the behest of Patel. Setalvad received Rs 30 lakh after the 2002 post-Godhra riots.
The SIT further claimed that Setalvad used to meet leaders of a major national party in power at that time in Delhi to implicate the names of senior leaders of the BJP government in riot cases. It cited another witness to claim that in 2006 Setalvad had asked a Congress leader why the party was “only giving Shabana and Javed a chance” and not making them members of the Rajya Sabha.
Last month, a day after the Supreme Court upheld the clean chit given to the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi And in the case of other Gujarat riots, the state police arrested Setalvad. Along with Sreekumar and Bhatt, they were booked under IPC sections 468 (forgery) and 194 (granting or fabricating false evidence with intent to obtain conviction for capital offence).
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