New Delhi: The Gujarat anti-terrorism squad detained activist Teesta Setalvad in Mumbai on Saturday in a case related to her non-governmental organisation (NGO), news agency ANI reported.
The Gujarat team took her to the Santa Cruz police station in the evening.
While leaving the police station in their custody, Setalvad told the waiting media that she had been assaulted. “Of course it is illegal,” she said, possibly, of her detention.
#WATCH Mumbai: Gujarat ATS leaves Santacruz police station after detaining Teesta Setalvad pic.twitter.com/7qmyfIeyj5
— ANI (@ANI) June 25, 2022
The charges were not immediately clear against Teesta Setalvad, whose NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), worked for the victims of the 2002 Gujarat riots.
CJP was a co-petitioner that sought a criminal trial against Narendra Modi and 63 others for alleged complicity in the Gujarat riots.
On Friday, the Supreme Court dismissed a plea challenging the clean chit given to Modi. The bench spoke of “the devious stratagem to keep the pot boiling, obviously, for ulterior design” and said all those involved in “such abuse of process need to be in the dock and proceeded with in accordance with law”.
Earlier Saturday, in an interview to ANI, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the top court verdict “clearly mentioned activist Teesta Setalvad’s name. She had an NGO that made applications against BJP workers at all police stations. There was so much pressure by the media that all applications were treated as the truth”.
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