By PTI
AHMEDABAD: A classes court docket in Ahmedabad on Saturday refused bail to activist Teesta Setalvad and former Director General of Police R B Sreekumar, arrested for allegedly fabricating proof to border harmless folks within the 2002 Gujarat riots circumstances.
Additional principal decide D D Thakkar stated that each the bail functions have been being rejected.
Setalvad and Sreekumar have been arrested by town crime department round a month in the past on the premise of a First Information Report registered towards them underneath Indian Penal Code sections 468 (forgery for function of dishonest) and 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to obtain conviction for capital offence).
The Special Investigation Team shaped to probe the case alleged that the duo have been half of a bigger conspiracy carried out on the behest of late Congress chief Ahmed Patel to destabilise the Gujarat authorities led by then chief minister Narendra Modi.
Setalvad was paid Rs 30 lakh at Patel’s behest quickly after the Godhra prepare burning incident of 2002, the SIT alleged.
Sreekumar was a “disgruntled government officer” who “abused the process for damning the elected representatives, bureaucracy and police administration of the whole state of Gujarat for ulterior purposes”, the SIT claimed.
AHMEDABAD: A classes court docket in Ahmedabad on Saturday refused bail to activist Teesta Setalvad and former Director General of Police R B Sreekumar, arrested for allegedly fabricating proof to border harmless folks within the 2002 Gujarat riots circumstances.
Additional principal decide D D Thakkar stated that each the bail functions have been being rejected.
Setalvad and Sreekumar have been arrested by town crime department round a month in the past on the premise of a First Information Report registered towards them underneath Indian Penal Code sections 468 (forgery for function of dishonest) and 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to obtain conviction for capital offence).
The Special Investigation Team shaped to probe the case alleged that the duo have been half of a bigger conspiracy carried out on the behest of late Congress chief Ahmed Patel to destabilise the Gujarat authorities led by then chief minister Narendra Modi.
Setalvad was paid Rs 30 lakh at Patel’s behest quickly after the Godhra prepare burning incident of 2002, the SIT alleged.
Sreekumar was a “disgruntled government officer” who “abused the process for damning the elected representatives, bureaucracy and police administration of the whole state of Gujarat for ulterior purposes”, the SIT claimed.
