RATHIN DAS
AHMEDABAD
Mumbai-based social activist Teesta Setalvad is heading for fresh trouble as the Gujarat Government has moved the High Court challenging a lower court's verdict granting her anticipatory bail in the case relating to the fabrication of affidavits filed on behalf of victims and witnesses of the 2002 Naroda Gam massacre in which 11 people were killed during the post-Godhra riots.
The City Civil & Sessions Court had last month granted conditional anticipatory bail to Setalvad who was facing charges of fabricating the affidavits filed by the witnesses of the Naroda Gam massacre case after the killing of 58 kar sewaks in the Sabarmati Express fire at Godhra on February 27, 2002.
Setalvad had sought the
anticipatory bail following allegations made by her former associate Rais Khan Pathan that she had fabricated the affidavits in Mumbai and sent them to him through e-mail.
He had only taken the printouts of the affidavits and got them signed by the witnesses before submitting them to various trial courts, probe agencies and the Nanavati Commission, Rais Khan had stated in his complaint against Setalvad.
The Government petition in the High Court said that the Sessions Court has not considered the evidence placed against Setalvad while granting her the anticipatory bail last month.The petition has been admitted and listed for hearing next week.
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