“Gujarat 2002 riots case: Supreme Court grants regular bail to Teesta Setalvad, cancels HC order”, Swarajyamag, July 19, 2023:
“A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice BR Gavai and comprising of Justices AS Bopanna and Dipankar Datta granted regular bail to activist Teesta Setalvad, over the case relating to fabrication of evidence in the 2002 riots.
The bench quashed the Gujarat High Court’s order through which Setalvad was denied regular bail and stated that the observations by the high court were ‘perverse’ and ‘contradictory’.
The bench stated and emphasised that, “We are at pains to say that the order passed by the learned judge makes an interesting reading. On one hand, the learned judge has spent pages to observe as to how it is not necessary, rather nor permissible at the stage of bail to consider whether a prima facie case is made out or not…..”
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