Activist Teesta Setalvad, former top cop RB Sreekumar sent to police custody till July 1

Activist Teesta Setalvad and former IPS officer RB Sreekumar have been sent to police custody till July 1.

Activist Teesta Setalvad and former IPS officer RB Sreekumar have been sent to police custody till July 1. Gujarat Police had arrested them for allegedly fabricating evidence, committing forgery and criminal conspiracy.

Setalvad and Sreekumar will be produced in Ahmedabad court on July 2.

The FIR was lodged against Setalvad, Sreekumar, and Sanjiv Bhatt after the Supreme Court dismissed Zakia Jafri's petition challenging the clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to PM Modi and others in the 2002 Gujarat riots case.

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According to the FIR, Bhatt, Setalvad and Sreekumar had conspired to abuse the process of law by fabricating false evidence and instituting false and malicious criminal proceedings against innocent people.

Activist Setalvad and RB Sreekumar have been booked under sections 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using a forged document as genuine), 191 (giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of capital offence), 211, 218 and 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy ) of the IPC.

Setalvad, who is the secretary of NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace, is accused of conspiring to fabricate facts and documents, tutor witnesses and abuse the process of law by fabricating false evidence to frame people, on the basis of submissions made before the SIT formed by the Supreme Court to investigate the 2002 Gujarat riots cases and before the Justice Nanavati-Shah Commission of Inquiry.