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| India court bails rights activist critical of PM Modi |
| 2022-09-03 |
| India's top court granted bail Friday to a rights activist arrested after her attempt to have Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared complicit in deadly sectarian riots 20 years ago. One of India's worst outbreaks of religious violence saw at least 1,000 people —mostly Moslems — hacked, shot and burned to death in Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... when Modi was premier of the western state in 2002. Teesta Setalvad was detained in June after the Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit she had backed to challenge a ruling that cleared the leader over the bloodshed. Critics say Modi's government has sought to pressure activists and rights groups by heavily scrutinising their finances and launching legal action against dissident voices. On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that Setalvad had remained in jug for long enough to be questioned over the charges against her. "In our view, the appellant is entitled to the release on interim bail," a three-judge bench said. Setalvad, 60, had sought the court's intervention after a Gujarat court deferred its own bail hearing for seven weeks. Government counsel accused her of forgery and submitting false evidence as part of their claim of a larger conspiracy to destabilise Modi's government. Two former coppers have been arrested as part of the same case. Setalvad had filed several lawsuits that accused Modi's administration of failing to stop the violence during the Gujarat riots. She had supported an appeal filed by Zakia Jafri, the widow of a former politician killed by a Hindu mob during the unrest. She was arrested by anti-terror police in Gujarat a day after the Supreme Court rejected the appeal, drawing concern from the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Human Rights Council and sparking protests in several Indian cities. The 2002 unrest began after 59 Hindus died in a fire that broke out on a train returning from one of Hinduism's most sacred sites. Thirty-one Moslems were convicted of criminal conspiracy and murder over the incident. Modi, who ran Gujarat from 2001 until his election as prime minister in 2014, was briefly subject to a travel ban by the United States over the violence. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Heh. Rioting was an on and off thing in Gujarat since the 40s. Until the last statewide massacre of moslems by Hindus in 2002. The dirty moslems had burnt alive some monks. And that was it. Hindus went on a purge like you wouldn't believe. Modi was the state chief minister then. He expressly told the police to let the civs sort it out themselves. And they did. The Hindus stood down only after the message was delivered to some measure of sufficiency. The moslems have lived in mortal terror of Hindu overreaction to their sasquatchery since 2002. This islamophile Marxist bitch was one of the whiners for the 'poor moslems raped and killed and oh mutilated'. She peddled her 'Modi is Hitler reborn!' nonsense from NY to Londonabad, made a career out of it. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-09-03 05:12 |