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  • Gujarat government opposes Teesta Setalvad’s bail plea

    Gujarat government opposes Teesta Setalvad’s bail plea

    Ahmedabad (IANS) | The Gujarat government opposed the bail plea of activist Teesta Setalvad in the Gujarat High Court and presented arguments highlighting her ability to tamper with evidence in a case related to the 2002 riots. The prosecution on Wednesday claimed that Congress leader Ahmed Patel paid Rs 30 lakh to Setalvad, Sanjeev Bhatt and RB Sreekumar as part of a conspiracy to blame the Gujarat government for the riots.

    The state government said that Setalvad was assigned the task of defaming then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and BJP workers.

    Setalvad’s bail plea was opposed by the government in the sessions court last year on the same ground.

    During the court hearing, the state prosecution termed Setalvad a tool of a politician with the aim of defaming Gujarat. The public prosecutor asserted that Teestawar conspired, along with police officers Sreekumar and Bhatt, to publicize the conspiracy angle and destabilize the Gujarat government in the 2002 post-Godhra riots.

    The prosecution further disclosed that Setalvad had allegedly received financial assistance from a prominent leader of a rival political party. He cited statements of witnesses, including Rais Khan, a former close aide of Setalvad, who described a meeting between Setalvad and Patel where instructions were given to ensure punishment for certain individuals.

    The prosecution supported their claims by producing recorded statements of witnesses, who claimed to have paid Setalvad on Patel’s instructions.

    –IANS

  • Gujarat government will recruit 7000 posts in police department this year

    Gujarat government will recruit 7000 posts in police department this year

    Under the order of the Supreme Court, the Gujarat High Court had filed a suo moto petition regarding matters related to the police. In which the state government was ordered to present all the information in an affidavit. A detailed affidavit has been filed by the Gujarat government following a stern stand by the Gujarat High Court on a suo moto petition regarding recruitment, vacancies in the police department and other police related matters.

    Out of 22 thousand posts, 7 thousand posts will be recruited.

    The state government will fill 7000 posts out of 22000 vacancies in the police department this year. Under the order of the Supreme Court, the Gujarat High Court had filed a suo moto petition regarding matters related to the police. In which the state government was ordered to present all the information in an affidavit. In which the State Government has accepted before the High Court that 21.3% of the posts in the State Police Department are vacant.

    Recruitment on 73 thousand posts has been completed

    The state government has also told that out of total 96,194 posts in Gujarat, recruitment has been completed for 73 thousand posts and total 22000 posts are currently vacant. Apart from this, the state government admitted in the affidavit that out of the total posts of the State Reserve Force, about 4000 posts are also vacant. Then seven thousand of these posts will be recruited in the police department.

    On the demand of the petitioner, the High Court had directed the state government

    Apart from this, the Gujarat High Court had also given an order on the issue of rally procession and meeting, according to which the state government has accepted before the High Court that proper instructions have been given for the rally procession and meeting as well. During the course of argument, the petitioner demanded that whatever instructions there are should be published in public and on the plea of the petitioner, the High Court directed the state government to publish the information of all these matters in the public. The Gujarat High Court ordered the state government to provide detailed information about all those cases i.e. additional
    Submit the affidavit in which a detailed hearing will be held on August 21.