2002 GUJARAT RIOTS :PM MODI GOT CLEAN CHIT, ACTIVIST TEESTA SETALVAD ARRESTED
New Delhi (The Quiver) : On Saturday, Activist Teesta Setalvad got arrested by Gujarat anti-terror squad (ATS) team. Basing on the FIR, activist Teesta and two former IPS officers have been booked for allegedly giving false information about the Gujarat riots.
According to the FIR, Setalvad, through Zakia Jafri, put several petitions in court and gave false information to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) head and other commissions.
The accused have been booked under sections 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using forged documents as genuine), 194 (giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of a capital offence) and other relevant sections of the IPC.
This development comes after the Supreme Court upheld the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) clean chit to 64 people, including PM Narendra Modi, in the 2002 riots case.
Earlier in the day, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in an interview, accused Setalvad of giving baseless information about the 2002 Gujarat riots to the police.
In 2018, late Congress leader Ehsan Jafri’s widow, Zakia Jafri and activist Teesta Setalvad approached the top court, saying the SC-appointed SIT did not examine all the material available, its investigation was biased, and investigators themselves should face a probe.
On Friday, the apex court, while upholding the SIT clean chit given to PM Modi, said that activist Teesta Setalvad exploited the emotions of petitioner Zakia Jafri for “ulterior motives”.
