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Teesta Setalvad bail: She was among the first activists to take up the cases of riot victims, which ultimately led to the Supreme Court setting up an SIT under former CBI Director R K Raghavan to investigate the riots.
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Supreme Court grants Teesta Setalvad interim bail; what was the case against her?
Teesta Setalvad bail: She was among the first activists to take up the cases of riot victims, which ultimately led to the Supreme Court setting up an SIT under former CBI Director R K Raghavan to investigate the riots.
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New Delhi | Updated: September 3, 2022 11:05:38 am
Journalist-activist Teesta Setalvad. (Source: ANI)The Supreme Court on Friday (September 2) granted interim bail to journalist-activist Teesta Setalvad in a case in which Gujarat Police have accused her of fabricating documents to implicate high government functionaries in the Gujarat communal riots of 2002.
Setalvad’s plea was heard by a bench led by Chief Justice of India U U Lalit, and also comprising Justices Ravindra Bhat and Sudhanshu Dhulia.
The chain of circumstances leading up to Setalvad’s arrest was set in motion after the Supreme Court, on June 24 this year, dismissed a petition filed by riots victim Zakia Jafri challenging the clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to high-ranking officials of the then government of Gujarat including then Chief Minister Narendra Modi, in riots-related cases.
A Bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and C T Ravikumar said the SIT probe had “fully exposed” the “falsity of claims” made by “disgruntled officials” of Gujarat “to create sensation by making revelations which were false” and said that “all those involved in such abuse of process, need to be in the dock”. The court criticised the petitioners for “keeping the pot boiling” and showing the “audacity” to question the integrity of the SIT.
The next day, June 25, the Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) arrested retired state DGP R B Sreekumar, whose role had been called into question by the court, and Teesta Setalvad, who supported Zakia Jafri.
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