Activist Teesta Setalvad has moved the Supreme Courtroom in search of an pressing listening to on her bail plea within the 2002 Gujarat riots case.
Teesta Setalvad was arrested on June 25 from Mumbai by Gujarat ATS over allegations of fabricating data to incriminate state functionaries in 2002 Gujarat riots case. (FILE/PTI)
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- Teesta Setalvad approached the Supreme Courtroom for pressing listening to on bail plea.
- She was arrested on June 25 by the Gujarat Police.
- Her arrest got here a day after then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi was accorded clear chit by the highest courtroom.
Activist Teesta Setalvad has approached the Supreme Courtroom in search of an pressing listening to on a bail plea pertaining to the Gujarat ATS-led (Anti-Terror Squad) case involving allegations of “conspiracy and fabrication of evidence” referring to the 2002 riots.
Gujarat ATS has alleged that the 60-year-old falsified materials data and proof with the target of implicating state functionaries within the 2002 mob violence case.
The plea was submitted by Teesta’s counsel Aparna Bhat on August 16 earlier than the Chief Justice of India for pressing itemizing of the matter. Subsequently, the matter has been listed for additional listening to on August 22 and the identical will probably be taken up earlier than a bench led by Justice Uday Umesh Lalit.
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Teesta and Sreekumar, who was Further Director Basic Police of Gujarat through the riots, have been arrested on June 25 in Mumbai by Gujarat Police’s Ahmedabad crime department over fees of fabricating harmless authorities officers within the 2002 riots.
As per the Gujarat Police, they have been detained owing to falsely implicating grave allegations in opposition to harmless people with offences punishable with the dying penalty.
They’ve been booked underneath sections 468 (forgery for objective of dishonest), 471 (forgery), 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to acquire conviction of capital offence), 211 (institute prison proceedings to trigger damage), 218 (public servant framing incorrect document or writing with intent to save lots of an individual from punishment or property from forfeiture), and 120(B) (prison conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
Teesta and Sreekumar, whereas pleading responsible, informed the courtroom that no case was made in opposition to them underneath any part of the IPC.
The arrest surfaced a day after the Supreme Courtroom upheld the clear chit accorded to then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi within the 2002 riots case by a Particular Investigation Crew (SIT).
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