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Who is Teesta Setalvad?

Teesta Setalvad is a rights activist and journalist based in Mumbai who is popularly known for taking up the cause of the 2002 Gujrat riots victims. She serves as the secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace, an NGO formed in the aftermath of the 2002 riots to provide support to the victims. She was awarded Padma Shri in 2007.
 
Early Career and Journalism
 
Before starting her career as a journalist, Setalvad pursued her bachelor's in Philosophy from Bombay University. Later, as a journalist, she worked for the newspaper The Indian Express and the magazine Business India. Her career as a journalist, however, was short-lived and she went on, along with her husband Javed Anand, to start a magazine called Communalism Combat in 1993.
 
Activism
 
Though Setalvad spent almost a decade in journalism, she is most well-known for her work as an activist fighting against communalism and for civil rights. Other than working for the victims of the 2002 violence, she has undertaken numerous projects including Khoj, an effort t rewrite the Indian school textbooks to filter out the biases and prejudices against minorities. Throughout her career as an activist, she has been vocal about the causes of Dalits and Muslims. 
 
Together with Zakia Jafri —wife of Ehsan Jafri, a Congress leader who was killed during the 2002 riots — Setalvad and her organisation filed a plea in the Supreme Court against the then chief minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi. The Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, upheld the Special Investigation Team’s clean chit to Modi and 63 others and termed the plea as “devoid of merit”.
 
Arrest
 
A day after the Supreme Court dismissed the plea against Narendra Modi and others in the 2002 riots, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested Teesta Setalvad from her Mumbai residence. She was detained in connection with an FIR filed in Ahmedabad on charges of “criminal conspiracy, forgery, and placing false evidence in court to frame innocents” in the 2002 riots case. Her arrest sparked protests at multiple places in the country and also an international outcry, demanding her release.

Latest Updates on Teesta Setalvad

According to the report, officials said that CPR's licence was revoked recently over non-compliance with FCRA norms.

Updated On: 01 Mar 2023 | 11:31 PM IST

The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the CBI and the Gujarat government as to why they want to send social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand back in jail

Updated On: 25 Jan 2023 | 6:28 PM IST

Justice Samir Dave recused himself from hearing regular bail plea of activist Teesta Setalvad in connection with a case of alleged fabrication of evidence in the 2002 Gujarat riots

Updated On: 15 Nov 2022 | 10:32 PM IST

Social activist Teesta Setalvad has said the country had rarely seen accountability of the state as far as targeted violence is concerned

Updated On: 03 Oct 2022 | 10:05 AM IST

A special investigation team filed a charge sheet against activist Teesta Setalvad, retired Director General of Police RB Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt in the 2002 Gujarat riots case

Updated On: 22 Sep 2022 | 6:54 AM IST

Activist Teesta Setalvad walked out of a prison here on Saturday, a day after the Supreme Court granted her interim bail in a case of allegedly fabricating evidence related to the 2002 Gujarat riots

Updated On: 03 Sep 2022 | 9:10 PM IST

"Welcome to freedom, Ms Teesta Setalvad, a courageous fighter for justice!" Chidambaram said in a tweet

Updated On: 03 Sep 2022 | 12:36 PM IST

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Updated On: 03 Sep 2022 | 5:17 PM IST

Setalvad has long fought for Gujarat riot victims and blamed the then CM Narendra Modi and other high-ranking officials

Updated On: 02 Sep 2022 | 11:56 PM IST

She was arrested by the Gujarat Police for allegedly fabricating documents to frame high-ranking officials in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases

Updated On: 03 Sep 2022 | 12:07 AM IST

Congress welcomed the grant of interim bail to Teesta Setalvad by the Supreme Court and said many other dissenters of the Narendra Modi government deserve such relief

Updated On: 02 Sep 2022 | 10:40 PM IST

SC granted interim bail to activist Teesta Setalvad, arrested for allegedly fabricating documents to frame high-ranking officials, including then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, in the 2002 riots cases

Updated On: 02 Sep 2022 | 5:30 PM IST

CJI UU Lalit said it is a matter of record that the appellant was remanded to police custody for about seven days and was interrogated every day

Updated On: 02 Sep 2022 | 4:02 PM IST

The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed concern that the Gujarat High Court, hearing the bail plea of activist Teesta Setalvad, issued notice returnable by six weeks

Updated On: 01 Sep 2022 | 7:29 PM IST

Supreme Court deferred to Thursday the hearing on the bail plea of activist Teesta Setalvad, arrested for allegedly fabricating evidence to frame "innocent people" in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases

Updated On: 30 Aug 2022 | 6:06 PM IST

The Supreme Court Thursday said it would hear on August 30 the bail plea by activist Teesta Setalvad, arrested for allegedly fabricating evidence to frame "innocent people" in the Gujarat riots cases

Updated On: 25 Aug 2022 | 7:22 PM IST

A bench headed by Justice U U Lalit issued notice to the state on the plea filed by Setalvad, who was arrested in June in the case and posted the matter for hearing on August 25.

Updated On: 22 Aug 2022 | 8:50 PM IST

Activist Teesta Setalvad has moved the Supreme Court seeking bail after she was arrested for allegedly fabricating documents to frame high-ranking officials, including then Gujarat CM Modi

Updated On: 16 Aug 2022 | 11:08 PM IST

The court of Additional Principal Judge DD Thakkar was scheduled to pronounce the order on Tuesday but said he will do so on Thursday as the order was not ready yet.

Updated On: 26 Jul 2022 | 9:37 PM IST

In a statement, Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said the party "categorically refutes the mischievous charges manufactured" against the late Ahmed Patel.

Updated On: 16 Jul 2022 | 5:37 PM IST