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Gujarat riots: Ahmed Patel paid Teesta Setlavad, Sanjeev Bhat, others to border Modi, says SIT

By means of ANI

AHMEDABAD: Social activist Teesta Setalvad, former state Director Basic of Police (DGP) RB Sreekumar and previous IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt had authorised Rs 30 lakhs from Ahmed Patel, the political marketing consultant of the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi to allegedly body then Gujarat leader minister Narendra Modi and destabilise his govt following 2002 Gujarat riots, a Particular Investigating Group (SIT) record printed.

The SIT was once shaped to probe Setalvad along side R B Sreekumar for legal conspiracy and forgery.

SIT’s ACP BC Solanki’s Particular public prosecutors Mitesh Amin and Amit Patel filed a testimony within the classes courtroom on Friday in opposition to the bail plea filed by way of Teesta, Sreekumar within the Classes Court docket mentioning that the accused had entered into a bigger conspiracy with the purpose of acquiring unlawful cash and different advantages from Congress.

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Particularly, a metropolitan courtroom in Ahmedabad despatched Setalvad and Sreekumar to 14-day judicial custody on July 2. Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was once arrested by way of the Ahmedabad Police’s Crime Department on Tuesday in reference to the Gujarat riots case for embezzling budget and forging paperwork.

After the riots that broke out after the Godhra incident, the SIT filed severe fees in opposition to Teesta Setalvad, RB Sreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt in terms of defaming a number of other people together with the then Leader Minister Narendra Modi and Gujarat in terms of petitions to more than a few commissions and the Superb Court docket.

The SIT affidavit said that the accused had a lot of conferences with Patel the place they gained Rs 5 lakhs for the primary time and Rs 25 lakhs after two days. Ahmed Patel passed on to the great beyond in 2020.

Final month, the Superb Court docket disregarded the plea filed by way of Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the blank chit given by way of the Particular Investigation Group (SIT) to then Leader Minister Narendra Modi and a number of other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Ehsan Jafri was once amongst 69 other people killed all the way through violence on the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s blank chit to 64 other people together with Narendra Modi who was once Leader Minister of Gujarat on the time.

After 58 pilgrims had been burnt alive at the Sabarmati Categorical teach at Gujarat’s Godhra Railway Station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out around the state wherein greater than 1,000 other people had been killed. (ANI)

AHMEDABAD: Social activist Teesta Setalvad, former state Director Basic of Police (DGP) RB Sreekumar and previous IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt had authorised Rs 30 lakhs from Ahmed Patel, the political marketing consultant of the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi to allegedly body then Gujarat leader minister Narendra Modi and destabilise his govt following 2002 Gujarat riots, a Particular Investigating Group (SIT) record printed.

The SIT was once shaped to probe Setalvad along side R B Sreekumar for legal conspiracy and forgery.

SIT’s ACP BC Solanki’s Particular public prosecutors Mitesh Amin and Amit Patel filed a testimony within the classes courtroom on Friday in opposition to the bail plea filed by way of Teesta, Sreekumar within the Classes Court docket mentioning that the accused had entered into a bigger conspiracy with the purpose of acquiring unlawful cash and different advantages from Congress.

ALSO READ | Sonia Gandhi acted thru Patel to border Modi in Gujarat riots: BJP

Particularly, a metropolitan courtroom in Ahmedabad despatched Setalvad and Sreekumar to 14-day judicial custody on July 2. Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was once arrested by way of the Ahmedabad Police’s Crime Department on Tuesday in reference to the Gujarat riots case for embezzling budget and forging paperwork.

After the riots that broke out after the Godhra incident, the SIT filed severe fees in opposition to Teesta Setalvad, RB Sreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt in terms of defaming a number of other people together with the then Leader Minister Narendra Modi and Gujarat in terms of petitions to more than a few commissions and the Superb Court docket.

The SIT affidavit said that the accused had a lot of conferences with Patel the place they gained Rs 5 lakhs for the primary time and Rs 25 lakhs after two days. Ahmed Patel passed on to the great beyond in 2020.

Final month, the Superb Court docket disregarded the plea filed by way of Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the blank chit given by way of the Particular Investigation Group (SIT) to then Leader Minister Narendra Modi and a number of other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Ehsan Jafri was once amongst 69 other people killed all the way through violence on the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s blank chit to 64 other people together with Narendra Modi who was once Leader Minister of Gujarat on the time.

After 58 pilgrims had been burnt alive at the Sabarmati Categorical teach at Gujarat’s Godhra Railway Station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out around the state wherein greater than 1,000 other people had been killed. (ANI)