SC chides Guj govt for case against Setalvad

Taking a grave view of what it termed as spurious case against social activist Teesta Setalvad regarding digging out graves and illegally exhuming bodies in the aftermath of 2002 carnage, the Supreme Court on Tuesday chided the Gujarat government saying the FIR is prima facie fabricated.

The top court’s strictures came at a time when chief minister Narender Modi is working overtime to cleanse the image of BJP and his government before he could score a hat trick in the battle for ballot slated in November.

“This is a hundred per cent spurious case to victimise the petitioner (Setalvad),” said a bench of justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai during the hearing of a law suit filed by Setalvad. It was alleged that in 2002, about 28 unidentified bodies of the riot victims from Pandarwada and surrounding villages in Khanpur taluka were buried in the graveyard.