Apex Court restrains Gujarat Police from arresting Setalvad, husband

The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the Gujarat Police until Friday from capturing lobbyist Teesta Setalvad and her spouse Javed Anand who have been blamed for stealing cash implied for the casualties of the 2002 Gujarat riots.
The limiting request to the police, which had officially arrived at the Mumbai habitation of the pair, came emulating an appeal recorded by senior Supreme Court legal counselor Prashant Bhushan. Prior in the day, the Gujarat High Court had rejected the expectant safeguard request recorded by Setalvad, Anand and others blamed for stealing about Rs.1.5 crore.
Equity JB Pardiwala had on January 30 held the request on the safeguard petitions documented by Setalvad, Anand, Tanvir Jafri (whose father and previous Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was murdered amid the 2002 Gujarat riots) and Firoz Gulzar, an inhabitant of the Gulberg Society in Ahmedabad.
At the last hearing, senior supporter Mahesh Jethmalani, who showed up for the arraignment, had put in the eyes of the court the announcements of Setalvad’s previous bookkeeper Rais Khan who blamed her and others for abusing the trusts implied for the groups of the Gulberg Society riot exploited people.
Setalvad, who has been embracing the reasons for the casualties of the 2002 Gujarat riots, has battled that the body of evidence was recorded against them with political intentions and they had not abused the stores. On March 25, 2014, the sessions court had rejected their prearrest safeguard applications.