A sessions court in Ahmedabad is likely to pass its order on July 29 on bail pleas of activist Teesta Setalvad and former DGP RB Sreekumar, arrested for allegedly forging documents to implicate innocent people in the 2002 riots cases.
As per the details, Additional Chief Justice DD Thakkar is likely to pronounce the order. Earlier on Thursday, the court had deferred its order in the matter till Friday, which it did for the second time this week.
Both the accused – Teesta Setalvad and RB Sreekumar have denied the allegations. Besides Setalvad and Sreekumar, former IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt is also an accused in the case and has been arrested.
The Crime Branch has arrested the trio and an FIR has been registered against them under sections 468 (forgery with intent to cheat) and 194 (granting or fabricating false evidence with intent to secure punishment for capital offence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). is of. ,
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case, in its affidavit, alleged that there was a major conspiracy at the behest of late Congress leader Ahmed Patel to destabilize the then Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government led by accused Narendra Modi. were part of.
Also the SIT had alleged that Setalvad was paid 30 lakh at Patel’s behest soon after the 2002 Godhra train burning incident. Whereas, Sreekumar misused the process of defaming the elected representatives, bureaucracy and police administration of the entire Gujarat state for wrong purposes.
The FIR against Setalvad, Sreekumar and Bhatt was registered after the Supreme Court last month dismissed the plea of Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who was killed during the 2002 Gujarat riots. His petition alleged a “larger conspiracy” behind the post-Godhra riots.
The SIT filed a closure report on February 8, 2012, giving a clean chit to Prime Minister Modi and 63 others, including senior government officials, saying there was “no prosecutable evidence” against them. . The top court had on June 24 this year upheld the SIT’s clean chit to Modi and 63 others.
With PTI input.
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