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An affidavit filed by the Gujarat Police’s SIT has said Teesta Setalvad was part of a “larger conspiracy” carried out at the behest of late Congress leader Ahmed Patel to dismiss the Gujarat government after the 2002 riots

Teesta Setalvad entered into a “larger criminal conspiracy” with a “political motive” to destabilise the Gujarat government in 2001, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) has told a city court while opposing the social activist’s bail application.

Setalvad was arrested in June, along with former IPS officers RB Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt, for allegedly fabricating evidence to frame innocent people in Gujarat riots cases.

An affidavit filed by the Gujarat Police’s SIT on Friday said: “…the political objective of the applicant while enacting this larger conspiracy, was dismissal or destabilisation of the elected government in Gujarat by hook or by crook, for which the applicant had obtained illegal financial and other benefits and rewards from the rival political party in lieu of her attempts to wrongly implicate and prosecute various authorities and other innocent persons in the State of Gujarat, including the then Chief Minister."

The affidavit further alleged that the “criminal conspiracy” was carried out at the behest of late Congress leader Ahmed Patel.

“…the statements of these two witnesses establish that the conspiracy was enacted by the present applicant, along with other accused persons, at the behest of Late Shri Ahmed Patel, the then Member of Parliament from Rajya Sabha and Political Advisor to the President of the Indian National Congress," the 12-page document read.

The SIT also told the court Setalvad had held meetings with Ahmed Patel few days after the Godhra train burning incident and had allegedly received Rs 5 lakh at the first instance, wherein the money was given to her by a witness on the instructions of Patel.

“Two days later, in a meeting conducted at the Government Circuit House Shahibaug between Late Shri Ahmed Patel and the applicant (Teesta), said witness had handed over Rs 25 lakh more to the applicant on the instruction of Late Ahmed Patel. This cash money given to the applicant was not part of any relief related corpus as all relief material in the form of food materials and other essential commodities was provided across Gujarat by one Gujarat Relief Committee," the affidavit read.

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