Teesta Setalvad

Social activists, academics, and former civil servants have urged the government to publicly share draft bills on women's reservation and delimitation for wider consultation. While wholeheartedly supporting women's reservation, the group expressed concern over the "opaque and non-consultative manner" of their introduction in the upcoming special parliamentary session.

The SIT filed a chargesheet on Wednesday against social activist Teesta Setalvad, former DGP RB Sreekumar and ex-IPS Sanjiv Bhatt, citing 90 witnesses in support of charges of fabricating evidence to frame 63 persons for a purported "larger conspiracy behind the 2002 riots". Sreekumar and Bhatt are behind bars, while Setalvad has been granted interim bail by the SC in this case.

The Gujarat high court on Thursday rejected Teesta Setalvad's anticipatory bail plea in a criminal case of misappropriation of trust funds collected on behalf of 2002 riot victims.

A three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Justice A R Save on Wednesday restrained Gujarat Police from arresting social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband till December 8.

The Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026, seeks to criminalise conversions through coercion, fraud, inducement or marriage. However, the proposed bill has reopened a wider debate over privacy, inter-faith marriage, religious freedom and the expanding reach of the state

Supreme Court on Thursday extended the stay on arrest of Teesta Setalvad and her husband.

The Gujarat Police’s move to arrest Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand is not just about “the harassment and victimization” of activists fighting for justice in the Gujarat carnage cases.

CPM politburo demanded that FIR lodged against activist Teesta Setalvad in an Ahmedabad police station be withdrawn immediately.

The HRD ministry has set up a committee to probe alleged misappropriation of funds received under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan by an NGO run by activist Teesta Setalvad, who is facing heat along with her husband in a separate case of embezzlement.

The Gujarat high court on Saturday dismissed a bail application filed by Mumbai-based social activist Teesta Setalvad in the case of alleged attempt of fabrication of evidence to establish conspiracy behind the 2002 riots to implicate 63 people, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi. While dismissing her bail plea, Justice Nirzar Desai asked her to 'surrender immediately'.

Anguished by the flippant charges made against her by the Gujarat police and other state agencies, activist Teesta Setalvad feels the entire purpose seemed to be to tarnish her character.

A group of students, teachers, activists and civil society members staged a protest at Jantar Mantar here on Monday against the arrest of Teesta Setalvad by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad, calling it a "pre-planned conspiracy" and an attempt to "silence" other activists. Senior Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh and Ajay Maken also joined the protest.

Smarting under the embarrassment over renewal of foreign funding licences of Greenpeace India and Teesta Setalvad's Sabrang Trust, the home ministry has reversed the renewed nod that could have entitled the two NGOs to receive foreign contributions.

Yasmeenbano Shaikh, one of the key witnesses in Gujarat's Best Bakery case, has moved the Bombay high court, alleging she was lured and misguided by social activist Teesta Setalvad to give false testimony against 17 accused.

The Bombay high court on Tuesday granted anticipatory bail to activistTeesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand.

The Centre slammed the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for commenting on the arrest of Teesta Setalvad, saying the remarks constituted interference in India's independent judicial system. Authorities in India act against violations of law strictly in accordance with established judicial processes, the MEA said.

Opposing activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand’s anticipatory bail applications, the CBI told a special court on Friday that the motive behind the transfer of foreign funds to a publishing house run by them reflected interference towards the internal security of India.

The Supreme Court on Thursday extended by four weeks the anticipatory bail granted to activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand in a case related to alleged misuse of funds meant for Gujarat riots victims.

This comes after a "politically motivated" section of civil society made attempts to cast "aspersions on the integrity of the judiciary" at large and in this case relating to Teesta Setalvad following her arrest in connection with a case against her NGO which gave baseless information about the 2002 Gujarat riots to the police.

The complainant, Feroze Khan Pathan, has accused office-bearers of Setalwad’s NGO, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), and Sabrang portal of collecting Rs 1.5 crore from various sources to convert Gulbarg Society into a museum in the memory of the people killed in 2002 communal riots.

Former chairperson of Tamil Nadu State Commission for Women V Vasanthi Devi has asked the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to intervene in the Supreme Court against CBI’s plea of quashing the anticipatory bail granted to rights activists Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand by the Bombay high court last month.

Times News Network Social activist Teesta Setalvad was in Jaipur on Sunday to participate in a discussion organized by People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL).

Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP P Chidambaram on Saturday hailed the Supreme Court's decision to grant interim bail to activist Teesta Setalvad in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases and called her "a courageous fighter for justice."

Setalvad's counsel Kapil Sibal did not have to argue for long.