Gujarat Riots: Ahmed Patel aforethought Against Narendra Modi, Says Probe Team

India Riots 2022 Written By Nehal Rana.................

The Gujarat police has opposed activist Teesta Setalvad's bail application whereas claiming that she was a district of a "larger conspiracy" by Congress veteran Ahmed Patel against then Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Ms Setalvad is one in all the 2 persons in remission by Ahmedabad crime branch recently on the charge of conspiring to incorrectly implicate individuals in reference to the 2002 Gujarat riots.

She was a part of a "larger conspiracy" meted out at the dictation lately Congress veteran Ahmed Patel to dismiss the BJP government within the state once the 2002 riots, claimed AN legal document filed by the police's Special Investigation Team before the sessions court.

Additional sessions decided octoate Thakkar took the Special Investigation Team or SIT's reply on record and denote the hearing on the bail application on Mon.

Ms Setalvad has been inactive, at the side of former IPS officers atomic number 37 Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt, for allegedly fabricating proof to border innocent individuals in Gujarat riots cases.

"The political objective of the person (Setalvad) whereas enacting this larger conspiracy was dismissal or destabilization of the non appointive government... She obtained out lawed monetary and alter native advantages and rewards from rival organization in function of her tries to incorrectly implicate innocent persons in Gujarat," aforesaid the SIT's instrument.

Citing the statements of a witness, the SIT aforesaid the conspiracy was administered at the command lately Congress leader Ahmed Patel. At Ahmed Patel's command, Ms Setalvad received ₹ thirty large integer once post-Godhra riots in 2002, it alleged.

Ms Setalvad wont to meet the leaders of a "prominent national party in power at that point in city to implicate names of senior leaders of the BJP government in riot cases," the SIT more claimed.

It cited another witness to assert that Ms Setalvad in 2006 had asked a Congress leader why the party was giving "chance to solely Shabana and Javed" and not creating her a member of the Rajya Sabha.