Teesta Setalvad, RB Sreekumar sent to 14-day judicial custody in Gujarat riots case

Activist Teesta Setalvad and former top cop RB Sreekumar have been sent to 14-day judicial custody. They have been accused of fabrication of evidence in the Gujarat riots case.

Activist Teesta Setalvad and former Director General of Police RB Sreekumar, arrested for alleged fabrication of evidence regarding the 2002 Gujarat riots case, have been sent to 14-day judicial custody. The two were produced before an Ahmedabad court on Saturday.

Sreekumar was arrested last Saturday and Setalvad the next day after being picked up by the Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad from her home in Mumbai.

"In the last six days, Gujarat Police interrogated me for not more than six-seven hours. The [Gujarat] police is wasting time. More than six female police officers kept eyes on me," Setalvad told the court today.

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"The investigation officer did not ask for any further custody. They were hence sent in 14-day judicial custody," prosecutor Patel said.

Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who is serving a life sentence in a custodial death case, is also an accused in the case.

The crime branch registered the FIR against the three a day after the Supreme Court dismissed a petition challenging the clean chit given by a Special Investigation Team to then chief minister Narendra Modi and others in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases.