Gujarat Police File Court case against Teesta Setalvad / + news on Bail Hearing at the Godhra Court

The Hindu

AHMEDABAD, February 12, 2011

Crime Branch registers case against Setalvad

Manas Dasgupta

The Ahmedabad Crime Branch police have registered a case against the Mumbai-based social activist and general-secretary of the Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), Teesta Setalvad, for allegedly hacking the e-mail ID of her estranged colleague, Raees Khan Pathan.

Mr. Pathan, the field co-ordinator for the Gujarat region of the CJP, had lodged a complaint with the Ahmedabad police commissioner in September last, against Ms. Setalvad, naming her as the one who had hacked his e-mail ID and posted false reports in his name on the Internet.

The city commissioner had entrusted the task of investigating Mr. Pathan's complaint with the Crime Branch, which finally registered an offence against Ms. Setalvad on Friday.

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The Times of India

Court hears Teesta's bail application

TNN, Feb 10, 2011, 11.22pm IST


VADODARA: A Godhra court started hearing the anticipatory bail petition filed by civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad of Citizens for Justice and Peace on Thursday. The petition was filed in the wake of apprehensions that the Panchmahal police may arrest Setalvad in connection with the Lunawada exhumation case.

The petition for anticipatory bail was moved by Setalvad through her counsel A A Hasan on January 27. The petition was moved in the wake of the arrest of nine persons for allegedly exhuming the bodies of riots victims on December 27, 2005, at Lunawada without following legalities. Lunawada police station had registered an offence regarding the incident.

Those arrested include Setalvad's one-time aide Rais Khan Pathan. The arrests were made after the Gujarat high court lifted a stay on the investigations in the case. The stay was granted as two accused in the case had moved the high court seeking that the offence against them should be quashed.

Hasan in his arguments on Thursday said that Setalvad could be granted anticipatory bail on grounds of parity as other accused were also granted bail or anticipatory bails earlier. He said that Setalvad was also a prominent activist, who had helped riot victims and was also given awards for her work.

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Now, Setalvad has moved the Godhra court apprehending arrest, advocate Hasan said."In her anticipatory bail plea, Setalvad has said that her name is not mentioned in the FIR," Hasan said. The bail plea says that she had filed cases in the court to help the riot victims, and was not involved in any illegal activity."We have also said that as all the main accused in the case have been given bail (after arrest), court should consider her plea for advance bail," Hasan further said. Setalvad's plea further says that Pandarwada body exhumation gained a lot of publicity, after which the Gujarat High Court ordered DNA tests of bodies, and later ordered that they be handed over to the relatives of victims.The remains were then re-buried with total respect by the relatives, it adds.Khan, after falling out with Setalvad, has filled affidavit in some of the riot cases being investigated by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT), alleging that Setalvad made victims sign false affidavits after the post-Godhra riots.