Ahmedabad, June 26
A Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Gujarat ATS DIG, will probe the case against activist Teesta Setalvad and former IPS officers RB Sreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt, who have been accused of misusing the process of law by fabricating evidence to implicate innocent people. Has been charged. With regard to the 2002 Gujarat communal riots, a senior official said on Sunday.
Activist Sreekumar in custody till July 2
Ahmedabad: An Ahmedabad court on Sunday sent social activist Teesta Setalvad and former state director general of police RB Sreekumar to police custody till July 2 for fabricating evidence to implicate innocent people in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots. PTI
Gujarat riots: SC takes note of journalist’s statement
- The Supreme Court has upheld the clean chit given by an SIT to the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and 63 others in the 2002 riots cases, with TV anchor Sudhir Chaudhary’s statement regarding his alleged interview with Modi.
- Chowdhury, who is the editor-in-chief of Zee News, was summoned by the SC-appointed SIT and was asked about the contents of the report in which the then chief minister had allegedly referred to Newton’s law that every action has equal value. And the opposite reaction occurs.
- The Left parties opposed the arrest of Setalvad by the Gujarat Police, with the CPM alleging that the move was “disgusting” to the democratic rights of citizens. PTI
Earlier in the day, Setalvad was arrested by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch, a day after he was detained in Mumbai and transferred to Gujarat.
Former Gujarat DGP Sreekumar was arrested on Saturday while the process of obtaining transfer warrant for the custody of Bhatt, who is serving a life term in a Palanpur jail in connection with the FIR registered against Bhatt, is on.
The SIT will be headed by Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad Deepan Bhadran and will have Ahmedabad Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch and SP of Gujarat ATS as its two members, the official said.