DIG-led workforce to probe case in opposition to Setalvad

Express News Service

AHMEDABAD:  The Gujarat Police have fashioned a particular investigation workforce (SIT) to probe the case in opposition to activist Teesta Setalvad and former IPS officers RB Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt who’ve been accused of “abusing the process of law by fabricating evidence to frame innocent people” in reference to the 2002 communal riots.

The SIT will likely be headed by DIG (ATS) Deepan Bhadran and can embrace DCP (Crime) Chaitanya Mandlik, ATS SP Sunil Joshi and ASP B C Solanki. After Teesta Setalvad was detained in Mumbai on Friday night, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) handed her over to the Ahmedabad Crime Branch on Sunday.

After bringing the activist to Ahmedabad, the sleuths received her medical checkup accomplished at Civil Hospital. Talking to media Setalvad alleged that the ATS sleuths assaulted her. “They have done my medical. I have a big bruise on my hand, this is what the ATS did to me. They are taking me to the magistrate’s court. I’m not guilty. I will tell everything in court,” she mentioned.

DCP (Crime Division) Chaitanya Mandlik IPS, in the meantime, mentioned his division registered the FIR offense after the Supreme Court’s June 24 ruling. The prime court docket had dismissed the plea by Zakia Ehsan Jafri in opposition to the SIT’s closure report.