By ANI
AHMEDABAD: Social activist Teesta Setalvad, former state Director General of Police (DGP) RB Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt had accepted Rs 30 lakhs from Ahmed Patel, the political advisor of the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi to allegedly body then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and destabilise his authorities following 2002 Gujarat riots, a Special Investigating Team (SIT) report revealed.
The SIT was fashioned to probe Setalvad together with R B Sreekumar for felony conspiracy and forgery.
SIT’s ACP BC Solanki’s Special public prosecutors Mitesh Amin and Amit Patel filed an affidavit within the periods court docket on Friday towards the bail plea filed by Teesta, Sreekumar within the Sessions Court stating that the accused had entered into a bigger conspiracy with the intention of acquiring unlawful cash and different advantages from Congress.
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Notably, a metropolitan court docket in Ahmedabad despatched Setalvad and Sreekumar to 14-day judicial custody on July 2. Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested by the Ahmedabad Police’s Crime Branch on Tuesday in reference to the Gujarat riots case for embezzling funds and forging paperwork.
After the riots that broke out after the Godhra incident, the SIT filed severe fees towards Teesta Setalvad, RB Sreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt within the case of defaming a number of individuals together with the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Gujarat within the case of petitions to numerous commissions and the Supreme Court.
The SIT affidavit said that the accused had quite a few conferences with Patel the place they acquired Rs 5 lakhs for the primary time and Rs 25 lakhs after two days. Ahmed Patel handed away in 2020.
Last month, the Supreme Court dismissed the plea filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the clear chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and several other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Ehsan Jafri was amongst 69 individuals killed throughout violence on the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s clear chit to 64 individuals together with Narendra Modi who was Chief Minister of Gujarat on the time.
After 58 pilgrims had been burnt alive on the Sabarmati Express prepare at Gujarat’s Godhra Railway Station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out throughout the state through which greater than 1,000 individuals had been killed. (ANI)
AHMEDABAD: Social activist Teesta Setalvad, former state Director General of Police (DGP) RB Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt had accepted Rs 30 lakhs from Ahmed Patel, the political advisor of the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi to allegedly body then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and destabilise his authorities following 2002 Gujarat riots, a Special Investigating Team (SIT) report revealed.
The SIT was fashioned to probe Setalvad together with R B Sreekumar for felony conspiracy and forgery.
SIT’s ACP BC Solanki’s Special public prosecutors Mitesh Amin and Amit Patel filed an affidavit within the periods court docket on Friday towards the bail plea filed by Teesta, Sreekumar within the Sessions Court stating that the accused had entered into a bigger conspiracy with the intention of acquiring unlawful cash and different advantages from Congress.
ALSO READ | Sonia Gandhi acted by way of Patel to border Modi in Gujarat riots: BJP
Notably, a metropolitan court docket in Ahmedabad despatched Setalvad and Sreekumar to 14-day judicial custody on July 2. Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested by the Ahmedabad Police’s Crime Branch on Tuesday in reference to the Gujarat riots case for embezzling funds and forging paperwork.
After the riots that broke out after the Godhra incident, the SIT filed severe fees towards Teesta Setalvad, RB Sreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt within the case of defaming a number of individuals together with the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Gujarat within the case of petitions to numerous commissions and the Supreme Court.
The SIT affidavit said that the accused had quite a few conferences with Patel the place they acquired Rs 5 lakhs for the primary time and Rs 25 lakhs after two days. Ahmed Patel handed away in 2020.
Last month, the Supreme Court dismissed the plea filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the clear chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and several other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Ehsan Jafri was amongst 69 individuals killed throughout violence on the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s clear chit to 64 individuals together with Narendra Modi who was Chief Minister of Gujarat on the time.
After 58 pilgrims had been burnt alive on the Sabarmati Express prepare at Gujarat’s Godhra Railway Station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out throughout the state through which greater than 1,000 individuals had been killed. (ANI)
