Ahmed Patel paid Teesta Setlavad, Sanjeev Bhat, others to frame Modi, says SIT- The New Indian Express

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AHMEDABAD: Social activist Teesta Setalvad, former state Director Common of Police (DGP) RB Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt had accepted Rs 30 lakhs from Ahmed Patel, the political advisor of the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi to allegedly body then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and destabilise his authorities following 2002 Gujarat riots, a Particular Investigating Staff (SIT) report revealed.

The SIT was fashioned to probe Setalvad together with R B Sreekumar for felony conspiracy and forgery.

SIT’s ACP BC Solanki’s Particular public prosecutors Mitesh Amin and Amit Patel filed an affidavit within the classes court docket on Friday towards the bail plea filed by Teesta, Sreekumar within the Classes Court docket stating that the accused had entered into a bigger conspiracy with the intention of acquiring unlawful cash and different advantages from Congress.

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Notably, a metropolitan court docket in Ahmedabad despatched Setalvad and Sreekumar to 14-day judicial custody on July 2. Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested by the Ahmedabad Police’s Crime Department on Tuesday in reference to the Gujarat riots case for embezzling funds and forging paperwork.

After the riots that broke out after the Godhra incident, the SIT filed critical expenses towards Teesta Setalvad, RB Sreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt within the case of defaming a number of folks together with the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Gujarat within the case of petitions to varied commissions and the Supreme Court docket.

The SIT affidavit acknowledged that the accused had quite a few conferences with Patel the place they acquired Rs 5 lakhs for the primary time and Rs 25 lakhs after two days. Ahmed Patel handed away in 2020.

Final month, the Supreme Court docket dismissed the plea filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the clear chit given by the Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and several other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Ehsan Jafri was amongst 69 folks killed throughout violence on the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s clear chit to 64 folks together with Narendra Modi who was Chief Minister of Gujarat on the time.

After 58 pilgrims had been burnt alive on the Sabarmati Specific practice at Gujarat’s Godhra Railway Station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out throughout the state through which greater than 1,000 folks had been killed. (ANI)

<br /> AHMEDABAD: Social activist Teesta Setalvad, former state Director Common of Police (DGP) RB Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt had accepted Rs 30 lakhs from Ahmed Patel, the political advisor of the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi to allegedly body then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and destabilise his authorities following 2002 Gujarat riots, a Particular Investigating Staff (SIT) report revealed.</p> <p>The SIT was fashioned to probe Setalvad together with R B Sreekumar for felony conspiracy and forgery.</p> <p>SIT’s ACP BC Solanki’s Particular public prosecutors Mitesh Amin and Amit Patel filed an affidavit within the classes court docket on Friday towards the bail plea filed by Teesta, Sreekumar within the Classes Court docket stating that the accused had entered into a bigger conspiracy with the intention of acquiring unlawful cash and different advantages from Congress.</p> <p>ALSO READ | Sonia Gandhi acted by Patel to border Modi in Gujarat riots: BJP</p> <p>Notably, a metropolitan court docket in Ahmedabad despatched Setalvad and Sreekumar to 14-day judicial custody on July 2. Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested by the Ahmedabad Police’s Crime Department on Tuesday in reference to the Gujarat riots case for embezzling funds and forging paperwork.</p> <p>After the riots that broke out after the Godhra incident, the SIT filed critical expenses towards Teesta Setalvad, RB Sreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt within the case of defaming a number of folks together with the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Gujarat within the case of petitions to varied commissions and the Supreme Court docket.</p> <p>The SIT affidavit acknowledged that the accused had quite a few conferences with Patel the place they acquired Rs 5 lakhs for the primary time and Rs 25 lakhs after two days. Ahmed Patel handed away in 2020.</p> <p>Final month, the Supreme Court docket dismissed the plea filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the clear chit given by the Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and several other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.</p> <p>Ehsan Jafri was amongst 69 folks killed throughout violence on the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s clear chit to 64 folks together with Narendra Modi who was Chief Minister of Gujarat on the time.</p> <p>After 58 pilgrims had been burnt alive on the Sabarmati Specific practice at Gujarat’s Godhra Railway Station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out throughout the state through which greater than 1,000 folks had been killed. (ANI)<br />