AHMEDABAD: Social activist Teesta Setalvad on Monday denied all charges levelled against her in an affidavit by the special investigation team (SIT) investigating the case of fabrication of evidence behind the purported 2002 riots conspiracy and her lawyer asserted before a city sessions court that she had not accepted any money from Congress leader Ahmed Patel.
Opposing Setalvad’s bail plea, the SIT cited a witness and said that she had accepted Rs 30 lakh from Patel immediately after the Godhra train burning incident with the intention of maligning the image of the then chief minister Narendra Modi and others and to falsely implicate them on charges of a larger conspiracy to carry out the riots.