SIT chargesheet against Teesta Setalvad: The SIT of Ahmedabad police filed the charge sheet against Setalvad, retired Director General of Police R B Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a case of alleged fabrication of evidence in connection with the 2002 riots.
Teesta Setalvad had been lodged in the Sabarmati Central Jail since her arrest on June 26.
Teesta Setalvad granted bail: The Gujarat government has said that the activist had "enacted" the conspiracy along with other accused at the behest of a senior political leader and had arrested her in June.
Teesta Setalvad of bail plea: The Supreme Court wondered why the high court listed the bail prayer for hearing on September 19, six weeks after it sent a notice to the state government seeking a response to her application.
Teesta Setalvad case: On August 3, the Gujarat High Court issued notice to the state government on the plea and had fixed the matter for hearing on September 19.
Gujarat Riots Case: The sessions court in Ahmedabad was to pass its order on Friday on the bail applications of activist Teesta Setalvad and former DGP R B Sreekuamr arrested for allegedly fabricating documents to frame innocent people in the 2002 riots cases.
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.
Teesta Setalvad and Sreekumar have denied the allegations made against them by a Special Investigation Team probing the case.
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.
A court in Ahmedabad on Sunday remanded Setalvad and former state director general of police RB Sreekumar in police custody till July 2 in a case of fabricating evidence to frame innocent persons in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots.
The Centre had in 2007 honoured Setalvad with the Padma Shri, one of the highest civilian awards in the country to recognise people's contribution in various spheres.
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.
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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.
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A team of Gujarat ATS has taken custody of activist Teesta Setalvad. The apex court had called for further investigation on Setalvad. On Friday, the Supreme Court had said that on whose behest did Setalvad run the campaign against Modi for 16 years?
SG Tushar Mehta told the bench that Setalvad was “tutoring witnesses, was preparing pre-typed computerised statements and sending them”.
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