Setlavad was arrested a day after a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court made adverse remarks against her on June 24, 2022 while dismissing the plea by Zakia Jafri, wife of slain Congress Member of Parliament (MP), Ehsan Jafri who was killed during the 2002 Gujarat Riots.
She was charged of conspiracy and fabricating evidence to implicate higher functionaries of the then Gujarat government in the 2002 riots cases.
Later in September 2022, the Supreme Court granted her interim bail in the case. She was asked to approach the Gujarat High Court for regular bail.
By a detailed order on July 1, a single-judge bench of Justice Nirzar Desai of the Gujarat High Court, denied her regular bail observing that enlarging her on bail would deepen the communal polarisation in the State.
Among other observations, Justice Desai had also ordered Teesta to ‘immediately surrender’ before the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS).
Subsequently, she moved the Supreme Court for interim bail.
In a special Saturday evening, a three-judge bench of Justices Bhushan Gavai, AS Bopanna and Dipankar Datta, granted her seven days interim bail.
On July 19, the bench granted her regular bail observing that the findings of the Gujarat High Court denying her bail were ‘perverse.’
A day later, a sessions court in Ahmedabad rejected the application seeking discharge from the case.
Source: Barandbench
