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Gujarat court rejects Teesta Setalvad's plea
Friday May 27, 2011 11:11:49 PM,
IANS
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Gandhinagar:
The Gujarat High Court Friday turned down the plea to quash the
first information report against Mumbai based social activist
Teesta Setalvad.
Justice G.B. Shah, however, quashed the summons against her in
connection with the 2006 Panderwada mass grave digging case.
Setalvad, general secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace,
through her counsel Kamini Jaiswal sought that the court reject
the FIR on the ground that she was not present at the site of
digging and that the government was acting with mala fide
intentions against her.
Jaiswal argued that the summons and the report against her client
were "motivated", claiming that it was intended to "stop her from
helping the victims of 2002 riots in their legal battle".
Government pleader P.K. Jani contended that sanitary inspector of
the Lunawada municipality had earlier described the circumstances
leading to the "official burial" of 28 bodies of riot victims on
the banks of Panam river outside Lunawada town because the bodies
were "unclaimed".
Later, some persons claiming to be relatives of those who were
buried had dug up the mass graves without any permission. These
allegedly included Rais Khan Pathan and others, Jani said.
Setalvad was granted anticipatory bail in the case by a local
court Feb 15, 2011, but it was opposed by her co-accused,
including Rais Khan Pathan, Ghulam Kharadi and others. They
testified before the magistrate that they had dug up the mass
graves at her behest.
Charges against Setalvad included fabricating false evidence,
causing disappearance of evidence, criminal conspiracy, hurting
religious feelings, trespass into burial place and some other.
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