Gujarat ATS detains Teesta for 'faking riots evidence'

MUMBAI/AHMEDABAD: Gujarat ATS detained Mumbai-based activist Teesta Setalvad and arrested ex-DGP RB Sreekumar on Saturday in connection with an FIR filed in Ahmedabad against them and Sanjiv Bhatt, alleging "criminal conspiracy, forgery and placing false evidence in court to frame innocent people" in the 2002 Gujarat riots case.
Bhatt, who is in Palanpur jail facing trial in a case of planting drugs on a suspect, will be arrested after cops obtain a transfer warrant, sources said.

Setalvad's detention in Mumbai and Sreekumar's arrest in Ahmedabad came a day after Supreme Court dismissed a petition challenging the SIT clean chit to then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots case. It said "all those involved in such abuse of process need to be...proceeded with in accordance with law".
The FIR naming Setalvad and the others was registered by the Ahmedabad crime branch hours before ATS knocked on her door in Mumbai.