AHMEDABAD: Mumbai-based social activist Teesta Setalvad was arrested on Sunday morning in connection with an FIR filed by Ahmedabad crime branch which names Setalvad along with two ex-IPS officers R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt for abusing the process of law by conspiring to fabricate the evidence in an attempt to frame innocent people for an offence punishable with capital punishment in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Setalvad and Sreekumar were later produced before a metropolitan magistrate in an urgent hearing, which granted the city crime branch their custody till 2.30 pm on July 2.