: Teesta Setalvad arrest: Residents from 21 states, human rights group call for her release #IndiaNEWS On Monday, 2,231 residents from 21 states and the Working Group on Human Rights condemned the arrest

Teesta Setalvad arrest: Residents from 21 states, human rights group call for her release #IndiaNEWS
On Monday, 2,231 residents from 21 states and the Working Group on Human Rights condemned the arrest of activist Teesta Setalvad, former Gujarat Director General of Police RB Sreekumar and former Indian Police Service officer Sanjiv Bhatt for alleged forgery in cases related to the 2002 Gujarat riots.Setalvad was detained from her house in the Juhu area of Mumbai on Saturday afternoon after a first information report was filed against her based on a complaint filed in Ahmedabad by Police Inspector Darshansinh B Barad. Sreekumar was also arrested in the case from his home in Gandhinagar.On Sunday, Setalvad was formally arrested and remanded in police custody along with Sreekumar till July 2 by a court in Ahmedabad. The Gujarat Police also formed a Special Investigation Team to inquire into the case.The citizens and the Working Group on Human Rights also criticised the Supreme Court judgement that dismissed the allegations of a “larger conspiracy??? levelled by Zakia Jafri, the wife of Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior Gujarat officials in connection with the riots. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat then.On Friday, the court said that Zakia Jafri’s plea was filed “to keep the pot boiling for ulterior design???. In its judgement, the court had...Read more

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