Ahmedabad, 5 December, 2014

The Gujarat High Court today directed activist Teesta Setalwad, her husband Javed Anand and slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri’s son Tanvir and a former Gulbarg society resident Firoz Gulzar to appear before the city crime branch’s Investigating Officer (IO) every fortnight for the purpose of interrogation in Gulbarg Society fund misuse case. The High Court issued this direction while hearing anticipatory bail applications filed by Setalwad and three others in which they contended that the city crime branch of Gujarat police intended to arrest her and others in the fund misuse case.

Senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, who appeared on behalf of the city crime branch today argued before the High Court that the accused (Setalwad and others) should be given a fair opportunity to put their side by appearing before the Investigating Officer. So far, they have not appeared before the I.O of the case and also not cooperated with the investigations, Jethmalani argued. Setalwad and others sought anticipatory bail from the High Court as the city sessions court here had rejected their pre-arrest bail plea on March 25.