Quashing the Gujarat High Court order which denied the activist bail, a three judge SC bench comprising Justices BR Gavai, AS Bopanna and Dipankar Datta, observed that the HC order was “perverse” and “contradictory”.
Setalvad and Zakia Jafri had challenged the investigation that gave a clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was the Chief Minister of at the time of the Gujarat riots.
In a significant development, not only was social activist Teesta Setalvad’s bail application allowed by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, but a three-judge bench of Justices BR Gavai, AS Bopanna,.
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