A courtroom in Ahmedabad on Sunday remanded social activist Teesta Setalvad and former state director basic of police RB Sreekumar in police custody until July 2 in a case of fabricating proof to border harmless individuals in reference to the 2002 Gujarat riots.
The prosecution had sought 14-day remand of Setalvad and Sreekumar.
The courtroom of metropolitan Justice of the Peace SP Patel despatched Setalvad and Sreekumar, each arrested in reference to an FIR lodged on Saturday by the town crime department, to police custody until July 2, mentioned public prosecutor Mitesh Amin.
Setalvad had accused the police of roughing her up and bruising her arm when she was picked up on Saturday by the Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) personnel from her Mumbai residence. She was introduced right here and handed over to the town crime department on Sunday.
During the course of the listening to, she was taken to the town civil hospital for medical examination as per the courtroom’s path.
“The court has kept the medical certificate in its record. We had demanded 14-day remand on the ground that the two accused produced fabricated evidence such as affidavits. There is need to interrogate them to know who their political masters are, as the apex court observed that the matter was politicised,” Amin mentioned.
Sreekumar was arrested on Saturday, and Setalvad on Sunday. Former IPS officer and accused Sanjiv Bhatt, who’s serving life sentence in a custodial demise case and is lodged in a jail in Palanpur in Banaskantha district, will likely be delivered to Ahmedabad on a switch warrant.
The metropolis crime department had registered an FIR in opposition to the three accused on Saturday, a day after the Supreme Supreme Court dismissed a petition difficult the clear chit given by the SIT to then chief minister Narendra Modi and others in 2002 post-Godhra riots instances.
Setalvad, Sreekumar and Bhatt are accused of abusing the method of legislation by conspiring to manufacture proof with an try to border harmless individuals for an offence punishable with capital punishment in reference to the 2002 Gujarat riots.
While dismissing plea of Zakia Jafri, widow of slain former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, the apex courtroom had noticed, “At the end of the day, it appears to us that a coalesced effort of the disgruntled officials of the State of Gujarat along with others was to create sensation by making revelations which were false to their own knowledge.” The trio has been booked beneath sections 468, 471 (forgery), 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to acquire conviction of capital offence), 211 (institute legal proceedings to trigger harm), 218 (public servant framing incorrect file or writing with intent to avoid wasting particular person from punishment or property from forfeiture), and 120 (B) (legal conspiracy).
The grievance drew upon paperwork of proceedings and different supplies to make out a case of cognizable offence in opposition to them.
It took under consideration submissions made earlier than the Special Investigation Team (SIT) fashioned by the Supreme Court to analyze the 2002 Gujarat riots instances and the Justice Nanavati-Shah Commission of Inquiry appointed by the Gujarat authorities.
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