The Congress seems to have made yet another self-goal. A few years ago, senior Congress leader and lawyer Kapil Sibal had decided to appear for activist Teesta Setalvad.
According to reports, Sibal managed to stall a case in the courts which implicated Setalvad of fabricating evidence in a 2002 riots case, the case which was filed by Setalvad’s former aide, Rais Pathan.
Teesta had sought to block the Gujarat police probe in the case against her where she was accused of allegedly fabricating proof, but the Supreme Court has disposed of her petition, which means the police can now initiate a probe against her.
Earlier, The Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for investigation into the fabrication of evidence in a 2002 post-Godhra riot case on allegations by social activist Teesta Setalvad’s former close aide Rais Khan Pathan against her. Setalvad and her NGO, Citizen for Justice and Peace (CJP), had challenged a Gujarat High Court decision upholding a magisterial court order for a probe against Pathan and others.
The activist was not a party to the plea filed by Pathan before the trial court, but she had moved the apex court as any investigation against her former aide would also bring her into the probe’s ambit. During the pendency of their appeal, the apex court had on September 2, 2011, stayed the high court’s order giving a green signal for investigation against Pathan and others for allegedly fabricating evidence in the Naroda Gam riots case.
The Congress seems to have made yet another self-goal.
A few years ago, senior Congress leader and lawyer Kapil Sibal had decided to appear for activist Teesta Setalvad.
Times Now has learnt that Sibal managed to stall a case in the courts which implicated Setalvad of fabricating evidence in a 2002 riots case, the case which was filed by Setalvad’s former aide, Rais Pathan.
Teesta had sought to block the Gujarat police probe in the case against her where she was accused of allegedly fabricating proof, but the Supreme Court has disposed of her petition, which means the police can now initiate a probe against her.
