Court relief for Teesta Setalvad

MUMBAI: A sessions court on Tuesday granted interim relief till February 1 to activist Teesta Setalvad who anticipated arrest in a case involving the fudging of affidavits relating to a victim of the 2002 Gujarat riots, allegedly by her former employee. The arrested accused, Rais Khan, who was a coordinator at the Citizens for Justice and Peace, had mentioned Setalvad in his statement to a magistrate in Gujarat.
Khan allegedly filed an affidavit stating that a riot victim was allegedly gang raped and stabbed by rioters at her late husband's house in Naroda Gam.However, the victim told the Special Investigation Team that she was never raped and had no clue about what was written in the affidavit, as it was in English.
gave his statement to a magistrate in Gujarat and had mentioned the activist's name.
Khan had allegedly filed an affidavit stating that a riot victim was allegedly gang raped and stabbed by rioters at her late husband's house in Naroda Gam. However the victim did a volte face and told the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that she was never raped and had no clue about what was written in that affidavit since it was in English and she had no knowledge of the language. On December 4, 2010, an additional sessions judge in Ahmedabad passed an order to book Khan and others accused of fabricating the evidence and preparing false affidavits.
According to the Gujarat police, the affidavit was allegedly drafted in English without the victim's knowledge by Khan who was a coordinator of the Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), Setalvad's organisation.
Outside the court after the hearing Setalvad said that she approached the session's court seeking interim relief before she approached the High Court for anticipatory bail. "The victim in her testimony before the Nanavati- Shah Commission had deposed the same thing that was submitted to the SIT. For what reasons she changed her mind, is unknown," she said.