Teesta Setalvad, RB Sreekumar Remanded To Gujarat Police Custody Till July 1

The Ahmedabad Metropolitan Magistrate on Sunday remanded activist Teesta Setalvad and former ADGP RB Sreekumar to Gujarat police custody till July 1 in case for alleged fabrication of evidence in relation to Gujarat riots larger conspiracy case.

The Gujarat Police had arrested them yesterday. While Teesta was taken into custody by the Gujarat ATS from Mumbai and brought to Ahmedabad, Sreekumar was arrested from his residence in Gandhinagar.

Teesta was one of the petitioners in the plea seeking probe into alleged larger conspiracy behind Gujarat riots, which the Supreme Court dismissed on June 24. 

While dismissing the plea alleging larger conspiracy into Gujarat Riots, the Supreme Court had observed that the petition was filed with "ulterior motives" to "keep the pot boiling". The Court further said that action should be taken against those who abused process of law.

In its order the SC observed that a "coalesced effort" of disgruntled officials from Gujarat and others was to make false sensational revelations, which the Gujarat SIT "exposed."

"Intriguingly, the present proceedings have been pursued for last 16 years… to keep the pot boiling, obviously, for ulterior design. As a matter of fact, all those involved in such abuse of process, need to be in the dock and proceeded with in accordance with law."

Soon after the SC order, the Gujarat police registered the FIR the next day.

The complaint by the Gujarat police names Setalvad, Retd IPS Officer RB Sreekumar and imprisoned former DIG (Gujarat) Sanjeev Bhatt alleging offences of forgery (468,471), giving false evidence (194), conspiracy (120B), fabricating records (218), false charges (211). Bhatt is in jail serving life imprisonment in a case for custodial death.