The FIR against Setalvad, Sreekumar and Bhatt was registered after the Supreme Court last month dismissed the plea filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
The SIT, in its affidavit in the sessions court in Gujarat, claimed that at Ahmed Patel's behest, Teesta Setalvad and others had plotted to destabilize the Gujarat government.
Teesta Setalvad, along with former Director General of Police (DGP) R B Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, was arrested by the city crime branch for allegedly fabricating evidence to implicate innocent persons in the 2002 riots cases.
Teesta Setalvad, along with Sreekumar and Bhatt, was booked under IPC sections 468 (forgery) and 194 (giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction for capital offence) among other offences.
The prosecution had sought a 14-day remand of Setalvad and Sreekumar. The court of metropolitan magistrate SP Patel sent Setalvad and Sreekumar, both arrested in connection with an FIR lodged on Saturday by the city crime branch, to police custody till July 2, said public prosecutor Mitesh Amin.
Setalvad was detained on the basis of an FIR registered on Saturday which accused her and two former IPS officers - R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt - of forgery, criminal conspiracy, and instituting criminal proceedings to cause injury, among others.
Congress party's came a day after the Supreme Court Friday upheld the Special Investigation Team's clean chit to Modi and 63 others in the 2002 communal riots in the state.
India's top court upheld the Gujarat High Court order and said Jafri's plea is devoid of merit.
After Jamshed Pathan was nabbed and interrogated, he told the security officials about the mastermind, Maulvi Mustaqin.
The 2002 riots in Gujarat broke out after the burning of two coaches of the Sabarmati Express train near Godhra railway station in which 59 Hindu 'karsevaks' were killed. The riots left over a thousand dead.
Without parrying a single question out of the 100-odd ones put to him by the 2002 Gujarat riots SIT, Narendra Modi as the then Gujarat chief minister "kept his cool" throughout the marathon 9-hour questioning and did not accept even a cup of tea from investigators, the probe team's chief at that time RK Raghavan has said in a new book.
Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to 13 convicts in the Sardarpura post-Godhra riot case. A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde grants bail to the convicts and asks them to do social service during the duration of the bail.
The court had previously said it will also look into the application by social activist Teesta Setalvad on becoming a co-petitioner in Zakia's plea ahead of hearing the main case.
Zakia, the wife of ex-MP Ehsan Jafri who was one of the 68 killed in Ahmedabad's Gulberg society, has challenged the Gujarat High Court's October 5, 2017 order rejecting her plea against the SIT's decision.
Senior advocate CU Singh, appearing for Zakia, had said that the main petitioner is 80-years-old and therefore, Setalvad has been made petitioner number two to assist her.
In 2012, a special trial court had held 23 accused guilty for burning to death 23 Muslims, mostly women and children, in a house in Pirwali Bhagol area of Ode village.
The Gujarat High Court pronounces its verdict on a clutch of high-profile appeals in the Naroda Patiya massacre - one of the most controversial cases from the 2002 post-Godhra riots
The Gujarat High Court pronounces its verdict on a clutch of high-profile appeals in the Naroda Patiya massacre - one of the most controversial cases from the 2002 post-Godhra riots
The Gujarat High Court is likely to pronounce its verdict today on a clutch of high-profile appeals in the Naroda Patiya massacre - one of the most controversial cases from the 2002 post-Godhra riots
The Gujarat High Court is likely to pronounce its verdict today on a clutch of high-profile appeals in the Naroda Patiya massacre - one of the most controversial cases from the 2002 post-Godhra riots
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