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India's top court grants interim bail to Modi critic

FILE PHOTO: Protestors demand the release of activist Teesta Setalvad after she was arrested from her home by the anti-terrorism wing of the Gujarat police, on a street in Mumbai, India, June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo

India's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release on interim bail of a prominent activist and harsh critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, more than two months after she was arrested on suspicion of faking documents about Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002.

Teesta Setalvad was detained from her residence in Mumbai on June 25 by police from Modi's home state of Gujarat, and has since been under arrest in the state.

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