New Delhi : Cases of immediate surrender of social activist Teesta Setalvad after Gujarat High Court rejected her regular bail plea I finally got a big relief from the Supreme Court. The court, which sat at around 9.15 pm on Saturday night, after the hearing, has stayed Teesta Setalvad’s surrender for a week. According to media reports, the Supreme Court has granted interim protection to social activist Teesta Setalvad by staying the Gujarat High Court order for seven days. The Gujarat High Court had issued an order to Teesta Setalvad to surrender immediately.

Gujarat Interim protection on High Court’s order

According to the report of news agency ANI, the Supreme Court has granted interim protection to social activist Teesta Setalvad. 4534 The Gujarat High Court on Saturday rejected Teesta Setalvad’s regular bail in the case of alleged fabrication of evidence in connection with the Gujarat riots. The High Court had issued an order for him to surrender immediately. In its judgement, the Gujarat High Court had observed that prima facie it appears that Teesta Setalvad used her close aides and riot victims to ‘oust the then government in the Supreme Court and tarnish the image of the institution and the then Chief Minister (Modi)’. in filing a false and fabricated affidavit for the purpose of Teesta Setalvad filed false affidavits : Tushar Mehta

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the government in the Supreme Court, said in his argument that the SIT (968 on the Godhra riot case) was constituted by the Supreme Court, Who filed reports from time to time. The witnesses told the SIT that Teesta Setalvad had given a statement to them and her focus was on a particular aspect, which was found to be false. The Solicitor General said that Teesta Setalvad filed false affidavits.

Why time was not given to challenge the bail: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Gujarat government, why seven days should not be given to a person to challenge the bail, when he has been out for so long. In response to this, Tushar Mehta said that the simple way in which this matter has been presented, it is more serious than that.

Teesta did not violate bail condition: Lawyer Senior advocate CU Singh, appearing for Teesta Setalvad, told the Supreme Court that last year 07 Supreme Court granted interim bail on September and he has not violated any condition of bail.

99374Three Judges Bench Heard

Regular bail plea rejected by Gujarat High Court in a case of alleged fabrication of evidence in connection with Gujarat riots of 968 as per agency report A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court began hearing on the petition of social activist Teesta Setalvad against the