Police Remand Of Setalvad And Sreekumar Till July 2
Police remand of Setalvad and Sreekumar till July 2; Teesta is not cooperating in the investigation, new team was formed for questioning.
The Ahmedabad Police on Sunday arrested Teesta Setalvad for hatching a conspiracy to defame the Gujarat government and then CM Modi by preparing forged documents in the 2002 Gujarat riots case.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Chaitanya Mandlik told that Teesta is not cooperating in the interrogation.
We are collecting documents against him from various sources. Teesta, who runs the NGO, was detained by the Gujarat ATS on Saturday from Mumbai.
The ATS handed him over to the Ahmedabad Crime Branch late in the night.
Police remand of Setalvad and Sreekumar till July 2.
On Sunday, crime branch officials took Teesta before the city magistrate. Former Gujarat Director General of Police RB Sreekumar was also produced before the magistrate.
There the police asked for 14 days remand of both of them. But, the magistrate sent him to police remand till July 2.
Accused of punishing innocent people.
During this, Setalvad accused the police personnel of misbehaving with him and hurting his hand. He also said that he is not a criminal.
Earlier, he had a corona test and medical examination at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad.
Teesta is facing many charges including giving death sentences to innocent people or life imprisonment on the basis of forged documents, giving fake affidavits in courts, and producing false documents and witnesses.
Teesta, Sreekumar, and Bhatt are accused in these sections.
Section 468 of IPC: Making forged documents.
Section 471: Knowing fake document to be present as the original.
Section 120B: Creation of criminal conspiracy.
Section 194: Fabricating false evidence to bring death sentence to any person.
Section 211: Making false allegations of an offense.
Section 218: Writing false articles and records.
Investigation of these officers.
Gujarat Director General of Police Ashish Bhatia has formed SIT to interrogate Teesta Setalvad. ATS DIG Dipen Bhadran has been made its president.
ATS Superintendent of Police Sunil Joshi, Crime Branch DCP Chaitanya Mandlik, Special Operations Group ACP BC Solanki, and three police inspectors AD Parmar, Praveen Vaghela, and Hiral Rawal has been included in this.
Action after Supreme Court’s comment.
Gujarat Police swung into action after the Supreme Court’s comment on the SIT report in the Gujarat riots case. Teesta and her associate former IPS officer RB Sreekumar were nabbed.
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed Zakia Jafri’s appeal in a petition challenging the SIT’s clean chit to Narendra Modi and others in riot-related cases, terming it “without merit”.
Zakia Jafri is the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who was killed in the Gujarat riots.
Preparations to take Sanjiv Bhatt on remand.
Police have started the process of taking former IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt, who is lodged in Palanpur jail, on transit remand.
Sreekumar is accused of making a semi-official diary while in the Intelligence Department and influencing the investigation of the riots on its basis.
Sanjiv Bhatt is accused of appearing before the Godhra Inquiry Commission and the SIT by making forged documents to attend the law and order meeting at the Chief Minister’s residence.
