: Teesta Setalvad case: Ahmedabad sessions court adjourns bail plea till July 15 #IndiaNEWS A sessions court in Ahmedabad on Friday adjourned bail applications filed by activist Teesta Setalvad and former

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Teesta Setalvad case: Ahmedabad sessions court adjourns bail plea till July 15 #IndiaNEWS
A sessions court in Ahmedabad on Friday adjourned bail applications filed by activist Teesta Setalvad and former Gujarat Director General of Police RB Sreekumar till July 15, The Times of India reported.Setalvad was arrested on June 26 for allegedly committing forgery and fabricating evidence in a case related to the 2002 Gujarat riots. Sreekumar was later arrested on the same charges.While the lawyers for the accused persons sought an early hearing, the prosecution asked for more time, saying that it needed to place voluminous documents on record. These documents included the summary report of a Special Investigation Team which looked into allegations of a larger conspiracy behind the riots.Setalvad and Sreekumar were arrested by the Gujarat Police’s Anti-Terrorism Squad two days after the Supreme Court had dismissed a plea filed by Setalvad and Zakia Jafri, the wife of former Congress MP, challenging the report of a Special Investigation Team that had cleared Narendra Modi from the case. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat during the riots.The court had said that the petition was filed “to keep the pot boiling for ulterior design�. The Gujarat Police’s FIR cites a portion of the Supreme Court judgement that said that “all those involved in such abuse of process, need to be in the dock and proceeded...Read more

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