Teesta Setalvad to go to jail? Bail plea rejected, HC asks her to surrender immediately

New Delhi: In a setback to social activist Teesta Setalvad, the Gujarat High Court on Saturday dismissed her petition for bail and directed her to surrender immediately before the police.

Teesta Setalvad is accused of fabrication of evidence in a couple of cases related to post-Godhra riots, where she allegedly leveled false charges against some people and tried to frame them.

The court of Justice Nirzar Desai rejected her bail plea on Saturday. The social activist is on interim bail, granted by the Apex court.

Setalvad was arrested on June 25, 2022, after FIR was lodged against her for allegedly falsely implicating innocent persons in connection with 2002 Gujarat riots. She was arrested along with co-accused & former Director General of Police RB Sreekumar.

After put behind bars on June 25, she stayed in police custody and was then remanded to judicial custody on July 2, 2022. Subsequently, she was granted relief by the Supreme Court in September 2022.

The cases were filed against Teesta Setalvad, along with Sreekumar & former IPS officer was filed, days after the Apex Court rejected a plea, challenging clean chit to then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi & others in 2002 post-Godhra riots cases.

All three was accused of abusing the process of law by contriving a plot to target & frame innocent people.
Setalvad along with former officers were charged under many sections of IPC including — Sections 468, 471 (forgery), 194 (giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of capital offence), 211 (institute criminal proceedings to cause injury), 218 (public servant framing incorrect record or writing with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture), and 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy).