Former Gujarat Director-Normal of Police RB Sreekumar, who was arrested on June 25 together with human rights activist Teesta Setalvad, has moved the Gujarat Excessive Court docket searching for bail some 40 days after an Ahmedabad periods court docket rejected his plea for a similar.
Sreekumar, who had taken on the Gujarat authorities over the 2002 communal riots, faces the identical fees of fabricating proof to nail the BJP rule as Mumbai-based rights activist Teesta Setalvad.
Teesta Setalvad had moved the Supreme Court docket after her bail functions had been rejected on the Periods and on the Gujarat Excessive Court docket stage. She is now out on interim bail.
RB Sreekumar’s bail utility has been scheduled for listening to earlier than the court docket of Justice Ilesh Vora on September 12.
In a communal mob assault throughout the 2002 riots in Gujarat, Sreekumar and Teesta had been arrested on June 25, inside 24 hours of the Supreme Court docket dismissing the petition by Zakia Jafri, spouse of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri.
Sreekumar is dealing with fees of alleged fabrication of proof, and the Ahmedabad periods court docket, whereas rejecting Sreekumar’s plea, had reasoned that releasing him on bail would “implicitly encourage the wrongdoers.”
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