The Supreme Court docket on Tuesday allowed an utility moved by activist Teesta Setalvad to journey to Amsterdam between November 14 and November 24 to attend the Worldwide Documentary Movie Pageant the place her documentary movie is being awarded.
Setalvad moved to the highest courtroom once more in search of permission to journey overseas after she was allowed to journey to Malaysia in August. She knowledgeable the courtroom that she has been invited by the organisers to attend the Worldwide Documentary Movie Pageant in her capability as producer of the documentary movie Cycle Mahesh.
A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Okay V Viswanathan allowed her to journey to Amsterdam at present.
Teesta Setalvad is at present out on bail in reference to a prison case involving allegations of a conspiracy to malign the State of Gujarat and Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was then the Gujarat CM, for his or her dealing with of the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, showing for Setalvad, knowledgeable the courtroom at present that she filed an utility in search of permission to journey overseas.
Solicitor Basic Tushar Mehta, showing for the Gujarat authorities, didn’t object to her utility this time. In August, Mehta instructed the courtroom that if she is allowed to journey overseas, circumstances must be imposed in order that her return to India can be assured. SG Mehta had additional expressed apprehensions over the “actual function” of her go to to Malaysia and stated that terror accused fugitive Zakir Naik additionally stays there.
The bench allowed her saying that the identical circumstances, as those imposed in August, would apply on Setalvad when her plea to journey to Malaysia was allowed.
In August, the Supreme Court docket allowed activist Teesta Setalvad to journey overseas to attend an anti-racism convention on a surety of Rs 10 lakh. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan heard her petition at present the place the activist was in search of a rest of this bail situation to journey to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from August 31 to September 10 to attend an anti-racism convention.
The highest courtroom additionally directed her to furnish an in depth enterprise about her journey plans and in addition ordered that she ought to return her passport when she comes again to India submit attending the convention.
In July 2023, the apex courtroom had granted bail to Setalvad, after she challenged the Gujarat Excessive Court docket verdict denying her bail. Whereas granting bail to Setalvad, the Supreme Court docket directed her to give up her passport as a situation for bail.