The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to activist Teesta Setalvad who has been in custody for over two months for allegedly committing forgery and fabricating evidence in a case related to the 2002 Gujarat riotsSetalvad had moved the Supreme Court objecting to this long gap between the date of hearings in the Gujarat High Court. It had issued notice on Setalvad’s
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The Special Investigation Team formed to probe the case alleged that Teesta Setalvad and R B Sreekumar were part of a larger conspiracy carried out at the behest of late Congress leader Ahmed Patel to destabilise the Gujarat government led by then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi.