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SC restrains police from arresting Teesta Setalvad till tomorrow - The Times of India

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI/AHMEDABAD: The Supreme Court has restrained police from arresting social activist Teesta Setalvad till Friday.

A bench headed by CJI HL Dattu passed the order after senior advocate Kapil Sibal submitted that the Gujarat police is hell bent on arresting her.

He said that police reached Teesta's home in Mumbai after the Gujarat HC turned down her anticipatory bail plea.

The apex court then granted her and her husband Javed Anand protection till Friday.

The apex court will hear Setalvad's anticipatory bail plea on Friday.

Interestingly, Sibal mentioned the case in middle of court proceedings, saying that it is an extraordinary situation and mighty force of Gujarat police is after her.

Clearing the path for police to arrest social activist Teesta Setalvad, the Gujarat high court on Thursday rejected her anticipatory bail plea in a criminal case of misappropriation of trust funds collected on behalf of riot victims.

Justice Pardiwala said that since the accused were not co-operating properly in the investigation and because it prima facie appears that the funds were used for private purpose, the accused persons cannot be armoured with full-fledged anticipatory bail.

According to officials, a police team led by a sub-inspector reached Teesta Setalvad's residence in Juhu on Thursday afternoon. But both Teesta and her husband Javed Anand were not present there.

Teesta had left her security behind at her bungalow. Police suspect that Teesta Seetlvad is in Delhi. She had left her home at 8am today.

The special public prosecutor for Gujarat government, Mahesh Jethmalani, who successfully argued to have Teesta's plea rejected, told TOI after the order against her, "it's a tragedy that persons who make it their mission to work for the rights of victims in society themselves try and take advantage of the funds that have been collected on their behalf."

Teesta's lawyers refused to divulge her exact location soon after the court rejected her pre-arrest bail plea.

The HC had earlier granted Teesta interim protection against arrest which it vacated on Thursday. The Bombay high court had earlier said it lacked the territorial jurisdiction to hear her plea when she first moved the HC in Mumbai last year. Teesta and her husband Javed Anand had moved the Bombay HC to quash the FIR in the misappropriation case against them. The Bombay HC had asked them to approach the court in Gujarat.

The Gujarat police filed a detailed 80-page reply last July to oppose Teesta's pre-arrest bail plea. The thrust of their argument is that she has used trust funds and monies collected by her NGO for personal use. Earlier while opposing her plea in the Bombay HC the Gujarat police said she "embezzled funds" collected in the name of the 2002 Godhra riot victims. Setalvad refuted the allegations and said she was being falsely and ''dishonestly'' implicated.

Setalvad and Anand had challenged before the Bombay HC an FIR filed against them by the Gujarat police last year.

Earlier the HC had asked her to file for anticipatory bail before a Gujarat sessions court which she did. The FIR against Teesta and Javed said that both the accused in the guise of collecting funds in the name of their NGO Sabrang Trust to set up a museum for victims of the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat at the site of Gulbarga housing society had allegedly misappropriated the funds and cheated the complainant. The FIR also invoked Section 72A of the Information Technology Act for disclosure in breach of lawful contract.

Teesta had earlier rebutted the police reply and said, "the state of Gujarat was spreading lies about Citizen for Justice and Peace cheating victims of the riots."

She had filed a rejoinder to respond to each "baseless and malicious allegation" of the state and she said a former employee of the Organisation who had filed the complaint was being used as a proxy.

Some former residents of the society alleged that Setalvad and her NGOs restrained them from disposing of their properties after the riots by promising them the NGOs would purchase them and turn them into a riot memorial.

However, the properties were never purchased on the ground that there was not enough fund. Later, the NGOs and the office bearers of the society told them that they could sell their houses. They have alleged that Setalvad and her NGOs gathered money from across the world by showing their condition and upon promise that the funds were meant for their upliftment.

On 28 February, 2002, following the Godhra carnage, sixty-nine persons including former MP Ehsan Jafri were killed by an unruly mob at Gulbarg Society.
 
check this out seculars

Rags to riches after 2000 Gujarat riots: Teesta swallowed riot victims’ money?

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In a fresh revelation, it has been exposed that social activist Teesta Setalvad, her husband Javed Anand and her NGOS ‘Citizen for Justice and Peace’ and ‘Sabrang’ Trust, have used and are using funds which were donated for the riot victims. Those donations were largely made by the Muslim community for the Muslim brethrens killed in riot.

After the analysis of these financial figures, it has emerged how Teesta Setalvad become rags to riches after 2000 Gujarat riots. A person who was not in a position to deposit even Rs. 500 in her account continuously for two years (From 1st Jan,2001 to 31st Dec,2002), could managed to get deposit of Rs. 1.49 crores in her account and Rs. 92.21 Lakhs into her husband Javed Anand's account after Gujarat 2002 riots. Statement of financial transactions of Teesta Setalvad and her NGOs, obtained through the Right to Information has revealed this bare fact.

Even, Rs. 3,52,213 are deposited in Teesta’s daughter Tamara Setalvad’s bank account from February 2011 to March 2013.


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Teesta Setalvad has been richly rewarded for her activism with a plethora of national and international awards, including the Nuremberg Human Rights Award 2003, Parliamentarians for Global Action ‘Defender of Democracy’ Award, jointly with Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand 2004; M.A. Thomas National Human Rights Award from the Vigil India Movement 2004, Nani A Palkhivala Award 2006, and Padma Shri 2007.

BUNTY AUR BABLI , PARTNERS IN CRIME

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wow.. Kapil Sibal, one of the most expensive lawyers in India is defending Teesta Setalvad. Just goes to show.. who is Teesta's real backers are!
 
wow.. Kapil Sibal, one of the most expensive lawyers in India is defending Teesta Setalvad. Just goes to show.. who is Teesta's real backers are!

Kapil Sibal is also defending the tainted TMC ministers of Sarda scam. Now his party should change its tagline to 'Hamara haath, choron ke saath'.
 
Nothing will give me greater pleasure when they arrest Arundhati Roy and throw away the key.

Then Rajdeep Sardesai.

Then Sagarika Ghose.

Are you guys watching Headlines Today. I feel like smashing the TV on his head. Sachin is talking cricket and he is giving his vishesh tipni in the middle. :argh::blah::mad:
 
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Nothing will give me greater pleasure when they arrest Arundhati Roy and throw away the key.

Then Rajdeep Sardesai.

Then Sagarika Ghose.

Are you guys watching Headlines Today. I feel like smashing the TV on his head. Sachin is talking cricket and he is giving his vishesh tipni in the middle. :argh::blah::mad:

For me nidhi razdhan & karan thapar from media along with rajdeep
 
Never ceases to amaze me how many self hating Hindus there are in this world. We are worse enemies to our own selves than what any other community could ever be.

that is what i have been saying , you shouln't blame when your own people weak minded . This is the reason why mughals & britishers had a free run in our country .
 
that is what i have been saying , you shouln't blame when your own people weak minded . This is the reason why mughals & britishers had a free run in our country .

I see it as one of the consequences of being a very old religion. Over time people will start to drift away. And anyways Hinduism traditionally has been open to all types of views and beliefs.

But unlike other old religions who also tend to drift away, in Hinduism there is a component of self loathing that I do not see in atheists from other religions. Who remain neutral or like @Chinese-Dragon continue to identify at some level with the old faith.

Hindus are extremists. They are either hardcore Hindu. Or they are anti Hindu. I do not see a moderate core in the center.
 
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check this out seculars

Rags to riches after 2000 Gujarat riots: Teesta swallowed riot victims’ money?

24_01_11_27_Teesta_Riot_Victims_money_H@@IGHT_360_W@@IDTH_480.jpg



In a fresh revelation, it has been exposed that social activist Teesta Setalvad, her husband Javed Anand and her NGOS ‘Citizen for Justice and Peace’ and ‘Sabrang’ Trust, have used and are using funds which were donated for the riot victims. Those donations were largely made by the Muslim community for the Muslim brethrens killed in riot.

After the analysis of these financial figures, it has emerged how Teesta Setalvad become rags to riches after 2000 Gujarat riots. A person who was not in a position to deposit even Rs. 500 in her account continuously for two years (From 1st Jan,2001 to 31st Dec,2002), could managed to get deposit of Rs. 1.49 crores in her account and Rs. 92.21 Lakhs into her husband Javed Anand's account after Gujarat 2002 riots. Statement of financial transactions of Teesta Setalvad and her NGOs, obtained through the Right to Information has revealed this bare fact.

Even, Rs. 3,52,213 are deposited in Teesta’s daughter Tamara Setalvad’s bank account from February 2011 to March 2013.


Teestainside20130301.jpg



Teesta Setalvad has been richly rewarded for her activism with a plethora of national and international awards, including the Nuremberg Human Rights Award 2003, Parliamentarians for Global Action ‘Defender of Democracy’ Award, jointly with Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand 2004; M.A. Thomas National Human Rights Award from the Vigil India Movement 2004, Nani A Palkhivala Award 2006, and Padma Shri 2007.

BUNTY AUR BABLI , PARTNERS IN CRIME

teesta_sitalwad_javed_anand_20050704.jpg


The last pic was very creepy :bad::bad:

wow.. Kapil Sibal, one of the most expensive lawyers in India is defending Teesta Setalvad. Just goes to show.. who is Teesta's real backers are!

Her days are numbered & surprised to see Media is not highlighting who is fighting for these people
 
Kapil Sibal is also defending the tainted TMC ministers of Sarda scam. Now his party should change its tagline to 'Hamara haath, choron ke saath'.
Birds of same feather flock together! :lol:

Her days are numbered & surprised to see Media is not highlighting who is fighting for these people

Precisely! Media kept a very low profile on this case...some of the. Totally blacked out this news. But she is not going to survive this case no matter who defends her!
 

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