Gujarat riots case: Ahmedabad courtroom defers order on bail pleas of Teesta Setalvad, Sreekumar

By ANI

AHMEDABAD: An Ahmedabad courtroom, which reserved its order on the bail purposes of activist Teesta Setalvad and former DGP RB Sreekumar final week within the 2002 Gujarat riots case, deferred the judgement to Thursday.

Both the edges had concluded presenting their arguments final week, following which the courtroom had reserved its order and was prone to pronounce the judgement Tuesday or on Wednesday.

The Gujarat Police Crime Branch on June 26 had arrested Teesta Setalvad in reference to a case in opposition to her NGO which gave baseless details about the 2002 Gujarat riots to the police.

The SIT had filed critical expenses in opposition to Teesta Setalvad, RB Sreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt within the case of defaming a number of folks together with the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi within the case of petitions to varied commissions and the Supreme Court.

An SIT report, earlier this month, revealed that Teesta, Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt had accepted Rs 30 lakh from late Congress chief Ahmed Patel, the then political advisor to Sonia Gandhi, to allegedly body then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and destabilise his authorities following the 2002 Gujarat riots.

The SIT was shaped to probe Setalvad together with RB Sreekumar for felony conspiracy and forgery.

SIT ACP BC Solanki and Special public prosecutors Mitesh Amin and Amit Patel had filed an affidavit within the periods courtroom in opposition to the bail plea filed by Teesta, Sreekumar within the Sessions Court stating that the accused had entered into a bigger conspiracy with the intention of acquiring unlawful cash and different advantages from the Congress.

A metropolitan courtroom in Ahmedabad despatched Setalvad and Sreekumar to 14-day judicial custody on July 2. Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested by the Ahmedabad Police’s Crime Branch in reference to the Gujarat riots case for embezzling funds and forging paperwork.

Last month, the Supreme Court dismissed the plea filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the clear chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and a number of other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Ehsan Jafri was amongst 69 folks killed throughout violence on the Gulberg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s clear chit to 64 folks together with Narendra Modi. According to the SIT, Zakia Jafri was used as a software by Teesta.

After 58 pilgrims had been burnt alive on the Sabarmati Express practice at Gujarat’s Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out throughout the state during which greater than 1,000 folks had been killed. 

AHMEDABAD: An Ahmedabad courtroom, which reserved its order on the bail purposes of activist Teesta Setalvad and former DGP RB Sreekumar final week within the 2002 Gujarat riots case, deferred the judgement to Thursday.

Both the edges had concluded presenting their arguments final week, following which the courtroom had reserved its order and was prone to pronounce the judgement Tuesday or on Wednesday.

The Gujarat Police Crime Branch on June 26 had arrested Teesta Setalvad in reference to a case in opposition to her NGO which gave baseless details about the 2002 Gujarat riots to the police.

The SIT had filed critical expenses in opposition to Teesta Setalvad, RB Sreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt within the case of defaming a number of folks together with the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi within the case of petitions to varied commissions and the Supreme Court.

An SIT report, earlier this month, revealed that Teesta, Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt had accepted Rs 30 lakh from late Congress chief Ahmed Patel, the then political advisor to Sonia Gandhi, to allegedly body then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and destabilise his authorities following the 2002 Gujarat riots.

The SIT was shaped to probe Setalvad together with RB Sreekumar for felony conspiracy and forgery.

SIT ACP BC Solanki and Special public prosecutors Mitesh Amin and Amit Patel had filed an affidavit within the periods courtroom in opposition to the bail plea filed by Teesta, Sreekumar within the Sessions Court stating that the accused had entered into a bigger conspiracy with the intention of acquiring unlawful cash and different advantages from the Congress.

A metropolitan courtroom in Ahmedabad despatched Setalvad and Sreekumar to 14-day judicial custody on July 2. Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested by the Ahmedabad Police’s Crime Branch in reference to the Gujarat riots case for embezzling funds and forging paperwork.

Last month, the Supreme Court dismissed the plea filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the clear chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and a number of other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Ehsan Jafri was amongst 69 folks killed throughout violence on the Gulberg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s clear chit to 64 folks together with Narendra Modi. According to the SIT, Zakia Jafri was used as a software by Teesta.

After 58 pilgrims had been burnt alive on the Sabarmati Express practice at Gujarat’s Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out throughout the state during which greater than 1,000 folks had been killed.