Topic: Teesta Setalvad

Following the Gujarat Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe charging late Congress leader Ahmed Patel of conspiring and fabricating evidence against Narendra Modi in 2002 riots, the Congress Party said that the “SIT is dancing to the tune of its political master and will sit wherever it is told to”. 

At a virtual press conference on Thursday, an international panel of human rights activists, parliamentarians, and scholars forcefully condemned the Indian government’s recent arrest and detention of human rights activist Teesta Setalvad.

The special investigation team (SIT) probing charges against whistleblowers activist Teesta Setalvad, retired DGP R B Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt told a city sessions court on Friday that the trio were allegedly part of a “larger conspiracy” for “dismissal or destabilisation” by “hook or by crook” of the then state government.

Jailed whistleblower police officer Sanjiv Bhatt who, as a whistleblower, exposed Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide, was on Tuesday arrested by a Special Investigation Team for allegedly committing forgery and fabricating evidence in a case related to the 2002 genocide.

The Indian authorities should immediately release the prominent human rights activist Teesta Setalvad, drop all charges against her, and stop their relentless attacks against her, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.

A day after arresting human rights activist Teesta Setalvad and former top police official R.B. Sreekumar for alleged forgery regarding the 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide cases, the Gujarat Police on Sunday formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe their role in the case.