A court in Ahmedabad on Thursday reserved its order on the bail applications of social activist Teesta Setalvad and former Director General of Police R.B. Sreekumar in connection with a case filed by the Ahmedabad Police regarding forgery and fabrication of evidence related to the 2002 riots cases.
Both were arrested on June 25 in a case of conspiring to destabilise the Gujarat government in 2002 and defame the State.
During the course of hearing, the prosecution, while opposing the bail applications, submitted that all three — Ms. Setalvad, Mr. Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt — had used Zakia Jafri, wife of slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri, in filing petitions against the State government to target the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
