Gujarat Police on Friday opposed activist Teesta Setalvad’s bail plea, claiming that she was part of a “larger conspiracy” carried out on instructions of late Congress leader Ahmed Patel to dismiss the BJP government in the state after the 2002 riots.
On Friday SIT’s ACP BC Solanki’s Special public prosecutors Mitesh Amin and Amit Patel made an affidavit in the sessions court against the bail plea filed by Teesta, Sreekumar in the Sessions Court stating that the accused had entered into a larger conspiracy with the intention of obtaining illegal money and other benefits from Congress.The political motive of the applicant (Setalvad) while enacting this larger conspiracy was dismissal or destabilisation of the elected government.She obtained illegal financial and other benefits and rewards from rival political party in lieu of her attempts to wrongly implicate innocent persons in Gujarat,” the police’s SIT Special Investigation Team mentioned in an affidavit filed before the sessions court in Ahmedabad.
Citing the statements of a witness, the SIT said the conspiracy was carried out n instructions of late Ahmed Patel. At Patel’s instruction, Setalvad received Rs 30 lakhs after the post-Godhra riots in 2002, it blamed.
Activist Teesta Setalvad was arrested, along with former Director General of Police RB Sreekumar, for alleged prepartion of evidence in the 2002 Gujarat riots case.
