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SC grants Teesta Setalvad a week’s protection from arrest
Updated On: 02 July, 2023 08:37 AM IST | Ahmedabad | Agencies
The apex court’s ruling came hours after the Gujarat High Court rejected her regular bail application and directed her to surrender immediately
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Activist Teesta Setalvad was picked up from Mumbai last year. File Pic
In a late night hearing on Saturday, the Supreme Court granted activist Teesta Setalvad interim protection from arrest for the period of one week. Earlier in the day, the Gujarat High Court had rejected her regular bail plea and directed her to surrender immediately in a case pertaining to the alleged fabrication of evidence to frame innocent people in 2002 post-Godhra riots cases.
While setting the HC order aside, the bench of Justices B R Gavai, A S Bopanna and Dipankar Datta observed, “The question is whether the heavens will fall if the HC extends protection from arrest to Teesta Setalvad.” The activist approached the apex court for relief soon after the Gujarat HC’s order. She is out of jail after having secured interim bail from the apex court in September last year.
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