Ahmedabad based Activist Teesta Setalvad was taken into custody by Gujarat Police’s ATS Anti-Terrorism Squad from Mumbai on Saturday, a day subsequent to Supreme Court lashed out at those who had “kept the pot boiling” on the 2002 Gujarat riots.
A complaint filed this morning by the Gujarat Police against her, cited Apex court verdict that included allusions to Ms Setalvad’s NGO which has worked extensively with the victims of the riots.
The activist has been accused of forgery and falsification of records among other charges in the complaint that also names former police officers RB Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt, who too had accused the Gujarat government of preventing the police from stopping the riots.Ms Setalvad was a joint petitioner in the case that was dismissed by the Supreme Court on Friday that challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s exoneration. Zakia Jafri, wife of Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed in the riots, was the main petitioner.Upholding the clearance to PM Modi, then Chief Minister of the Gujarat, by a court-appointed Special Investigation Team or SIT, the Supreme Court said the case was “devoid of merits” and was filed “obviously, for ulterior design”.
