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2 Sept 2022 1:29 PM IST

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    Supreme Court to hear the petition filed by Teesta Setalvad seeking bail in the Gujarat Police FIR over alleged fabrication of documents to file cases in relation to 2002 Gujarat riots.Teesta's petition challenging the Gujarat High Court's refusal to grant her bail was heard by a bench consisting of Chief Justice U.U. Lalit, Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia.In the last...

    Supreme Court to hear the petition filed by Teesta Setalvad seeking bail in the Gujarat Police FIR over alleged fabrication of documents to file cases in relation to 2002 Gujarat riots.

    Teesta's petition challenging the Gujarat High Court's refusal to grant her bail was heard by a bench consisting of Chief Justice U.U. Lalit, Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia.

    In the last hearing of the matter, the bench indicated that it will grant interim bail to Teesta Setalvad but ultimately adjourned the hearing at the repeated requests made by Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta. 

    The hearing will start at 2pm

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    • 2 Sept 2022 2:52 PM IST

      SG : This maligning campaign must stop.

      Sibal : I never interrupted you. This is not fair. Fact of the matter is that in many cases people got convicted. 124 life imprisonments. And he says nothing happened.

      SG : I never said nothing happened.

    • 2 Sept 2022 2:52 PM IST

      Sibal: First, I don't think we should get into it. But he has made it an issue.

      Sibal refers to certain orders passed by the judge.

      SG : It is the judges' discretion.

      Sibal raises voice : I never interrupted you.

    • 2 Sept 2022 2:50 PM IST

      CJI : Okay, very well.

      SG: I will be repeating. I will urge not to make any exception.

      CJI : Thank you. Yes, Mr.Sibal?

    • 2 Sept 2022 2:50 PM IST

      SG : Your lordship has seen the nature of the conspiracy. It is not ending with the petitioner. It is starting with the petitioner. There are powerful people invovled.

    • 2 Sept 2022 2:49 PM IST

      SG : Allegation is falsification of evidence, cooking up witnesses, that is precisely we are investigating..

      CJI : Very well, anything else.

      SG: Kindly see 161 statement.

    • 2 Sept 2022 2:49 PM IST

      SG : This is the SIT report..

      CJI : We need not got into that. If the man testifies on oath in trial which concluded in 2014, is there any allegation that this lady put pressure on the witness?

      SG : We are investigating.

      CJI : These considerations are worthy so far as bail

    • 2 Sept 2022 2:49 PM IST

      Sibal: The closure report was in 2012 so it couldn't have been after 2012

      SG : Trial in these particular cases were over in 2014 and they were examined...

      CJI : We just wanted to know the approximate period.

      SG : Kindly come to para....

    • 2 Sept 2022 2:48 PM IST

      SG : According to us, it was during the trial.

      CJI : That is why we asked if any witnesses examined in the trial.

    • 2 Sept 2022 2:48 PM IST

      CJI : According to you, all these instances of she trying to get affidavits, when these activities took place?

      SG : That continued during the trial.

      CJI : What was the approximate time?

    • 2 Sept 2022 2:45 PM IST

      SG : My respectful submission, it would be setting up a bad precedent.

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