AHMEDABAD: The special investigation team (SIT) probing the case of fabrication of evidence for the purported 2002 Gujarat riots conspiracy told a city sessions court on Friday that social activist Teesta Setalvad, former DGP R B Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt had carried out the larger conspiracy with the political objective of dismissal and destabilization of the then elected Gujarat government and to wrongly implicate innocent people, including the then chief minister Narendra Modi.
Opposing the bail pleas filed by Setalvad and Sreekumar, SIT filed an affidavit by citing two witnesses and claimed that the conspiracy to malign Gujarat’s image was hatched by them “at the behest of Late Shri Ahmed Patel, then Member of Parliament from Rajya Sabha and political advisor of the president of the Indian National Congress”.
