DIG-led workforce to probe case in opposition to Setalvad

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AHMEDABAD:  The Gujarat Police have shaped a different investigation workforce (SIT) to probe the case in opposition to activist Teesta Setalvad and previous IPS officials RB Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt who’ve been accused of “abusing the method of regulation via fabricating proof to border blameless other folks” in reference to the 2002 communal riots.

The SIT might be headed via DIG (ATS) Deepan Bhadran and can come with DCP (Crime) Chaitanya Mandlik, ATS SP Sunil Joshi and ASP B C Solanki. After Teesta Setalvad used to be detained in Mumbai on Friday night time, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) passed her over to the Ahmedabad Crime Department on Sunday.

After bringing the activist to Ahmedabad, the sleuths were given her clinical checkup finished at Civil Health facility. Chatting with media Setalvad alleged that the ATS sleuths assaulted her. “They have got finished my clinical. I’ve a large bruise on my hand, that is what the ATS did to me. They’re taking me to the Justice of the Peace’s courtroom. I’m now not to blame. I can inform the whole lot in courtroom,” she stated.

DCP (Crime Department) Chaitanya Mandlik IPS, in the meantime, stated his division registered the FIR offense after the Perfect Court docket’s June 24 ruling. The highest courtroom had brushed aside the plea via Zakia Ehsan Jafri in opposition to the SIT’s closure file.