SIT recordsdata price sheet towards Teesta Setalvad, two others in Gujarat riots case

Via PTI

AHMEDABAD: A distinct investigation staff (SIT) on Wednesday submitted a price sheet towards activist Teesta Setalvad, retired Director Basic of Police R B Sreekumar and previous IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a case of alleged fabrication of proof in reference to the 2002 Gujarat riots circumstances.

Investigating Officer and Assistant Commissioner of Police B V Solanki advised PTI that the price sheet was once filed within the courtroom of the manager metropolitan Justice of the Peace right here.

Former IPS officer-turned-lawyer Rahul Sharma has additionally been made a witness within the case, he added.

The crime department FIR reportedly states that the trio abused the method of regulation via conspiring to manufacture proof in an try to body blameless other folks for an offence punishable with capital punishment in reference to the 2002 Gujarat riots.

The accused were charged beneath sections 468 (forgery for function of dishonest), 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to acquire conviction for capital offence) and 218 (public servant framing mistaken report or writing with intent to avoid wasting particular person from punishment or assets from forfeiture) of the IPC, amongst different provisions.

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Setalvad, arrested within the final week of June, was once launched on intervening time bail following a September 2 order of the Preferrred Court docket.

Sreekumar stays lodged within the prison within the case.

The 3rd accused, Bhatt is in a prison in Palanpur the place he’s serving lifestyles sentence in a custodial dying case.

AHMEDABAD: A distinct investigation staff (SIT) on Wednesday submitted a price sheet towards activist Teesta Setalvad, retired Director Basic of Police R B Sreekumar and previous IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a case of alleged fabrication of proof in reference to the 2002 Gujarat riots circumstances.

Investigating Officer and Assistant Commissioner of Police B V Solanki advised PTI that the price sheet was once filed within the courtroom of the manager metropolitan Justice of the Peace right here.

Former IPS officer-turned-lawyer Rahul Sharma has additionally been made a witness within the case, he added.

The crime department FIR reportedly states that the trio abused the method of regulation via conspiring to manufacture proof in an try to body blameless other folks for an offence punishable with capital punishment in reference to the 2002 Gujarat riots.

The accused were charged beneath sections 468 (forgery for function of dishonest), 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to acquire conviction for capital offence) and 218 (public servant framing mistaken report or writing with intent to avoid wasting particular person from punishment or assets from forfeiture) of the IPC, amongst different provisions.

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Setalvad, arrested within the final week of June, was once launched on intervening time bail following a September 2 order of the Preferrred Court docket.

Sreekumar stays lodged within the prison within the case.

The 3rd accused, Bhatt is in a prison in Palanpur the place he’s serving lifestyles sentence in a custodial dying case.