: Social activist Teesta Setalvad on Tuesday alleged that Centre was directing the Central Bureau of Investigation to repeatedly call her for questioning as it would prevent her from listing the evidence in the Zakia Jafri case on the Gujarat riots, scheduled for a crucial hearing on July 27.
Ms. Setalvad made the remarks after she was summoned for questioning for the fourth consecutive day by the CBI at its regional office here. Her anticipatory bail plea was to come up for hearing at a local court earlier in the day but it was adjourned to Friday, thus extending the interim bail. Soon after, she and her husband Javed Anand were called by the CBI for questioning.
Ms. Jafri, the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, has challenged a lower court order giving a clean chit to Mr. Modi and others in connection with the 2002 riots in the Gujarat High Court and needs to submit the evidence by July 23.
