TEESTA SETALVAD
THE ACTIVIST FOR MINORITY
SARASIJ MAJUMDER
The Supreme Court superseded
a July 1 -2023 order of the Gujarat High Court directing activist Teesta
Setalvad to surrender immediately in a forgery case linked to the 2002 riots.
The apex court, said Ms. Setalvad would
continue on bail in accordance with a September 2, 2022, vide order of the
Supreme Court.
The rumour in social media is that, after receiving PHONE CALL, CJI got the Supreme Court opened at night on July 1,
2023 to grant bail to activist Teesta Setalvad.
Originally, Ms. Setalvad was arrested from Mumbai on June 25 , 2022, by a team
of Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad officers. Her arrest was based on an FIR
registered in Gujarat the previous day.
There are many activists I know, arrested and were put into Jail
over a period of time, in the past—but the manner in which this activist got
BAIL—is exemplary, to say the least!
Teesta Setalvad is an Indian civil rights activist and
journalist. She is the secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), an
organisation formed to advocate for the Muslim Victims of 2002 Gujarat violence,
which was ‘EFFECT’ of a ‘CAUSE’.
Setalvad was born 9 February 1962 into a Gujarati family,
her father’s name is Atul Setalvad, a
Mumbai-based lawyer, and her mother’s name is Sita Setalvad. Her paternal
grandfather was M. C. Setalvad, India’s first Attorney General. Setalvad
married Javed Anand, a Muslim journalist who became a minority rights activist in 1987.
FAMILY’S PRE-INDEPENDENCE BACKGROUND:-
The infamous Hunter Commission was a commission of inquiry
that gave a clean chit to General Reginald Dyer, who ordered the Jallianwala
Bagh massacre. Harilal Chimanlal Setalvad, who was a member of this commission
was the great-grandfather of Teesta Setalvad, who is now on BAIL. It was this Harilal Chimanlal
Setalvad's son, i.e. Teesta's grandfather, Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad, who
later acquitted General Dyer in the same Jallianwala Bagh case. After
independence, Nehru appointed the same Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad, who had
acquitted General Dyer, as the Attorney General.
One of
the many indelible records of Nehru's British allegiance!
EDUCATION, JOURNALISM, MARRIAGE:-
She studied in law college for two years, dropped out and
then graduated with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Bombay University in
1983 and started working as a journalist. She started her journey as a
journalist from very famous newspaper and later worked for Business magazine.
Her first brush with communal violence came when she covered the 1984 riots in
Bhiwandi.
ACTIVITIES:
In 1993, in response to the Hindu-Muslim riots in Mumbai,
she and her husband quit their regular jobs and started ‘Communalism Combat’, a monthly magazine.
Setalvad and her husband, along with others such as Father Cedric Prakash (a
catholic priest), Anil Dharker (a journalist), Alyque Padamsee, Javed Akhtar,
Vijay Tendulkar and Rahul Bose (all film & theatre personalities) set up an
NGO named “Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP)” on 1 April 2002.
Zakia Jafri, widow of a Muslim Congress minister, in 2004, made
a team of 5 people to fight Mr. Modi. They are :-Teesta Setalvad
(litigation) 2. Sreekumar (Police) 3. Sanjeev Bhatt (Police) 4. Mukul
Sinha 5. Rana Ayyub (Media).
UPA with Congress came into power in centre, and formed
ministry.
The NGO forthwith began to prosecute in various courts
against the alleged complicity of the Chief Minister and government of Gujarat
state in the riots that had broken out shortly before. Their efforts met with
partial success in April 2004, when the Supreme Court of India transferred the
“Best Bakery case” to the neighbouring state of Maharashtra.
They were supported by Prashantbhusan, another Lawyer withy
questionable reputation!
However, Mr. Modi went on winning elections after elections in
Gujarat, and India—and these people ultimately could do nothing. However—the
rumour is that her NGO got Millions of Dollars from abroad, before present GOI tightened. May be-ARAB DOLLARS!!
WHERE SHE STAYS?
Amitabh
Bachchan's bungalow stands on Juhu-Tara Road, Juhu, Mumbai. Adjacent to that is
‘NIRANT’—a much bigger Bungalow. The present owner of the Nirant bungalow in
Juhu, Mumbai is civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband
Javed Anand, as information available in Public Domain.
The
bungalow is supposed to be her ancestral
property, and she lives there with her family.
The
road side gate has "Nirant" written on one side and
"Setalvad" on the other.
The
bungalow is also home to the offices of organizations run by the
Setalvads.
Refer
the image on top—Bungalow is shown on right part.
Read
more at:
https://organiser.org/2023/07/04/87869/bharat/teesta-setalvad-an-ngo-racketeer-who-ran-smear-campaign-against-narendra-modi/
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