New Delhi: Welfare Party of India strongly condemned the arrest of Activist Teesta Setalvad and Ex IPS Officer Sreekumar and called it political vendetta by the ruling dispensation and a sad day for Democracy.
Dr. SQR Ilyas National President of the Welfare Party of India said the recent arrest displays the ugly picture of a new India under Modi’s rule which is intolerant, vengeful, intoxicated with power, and strongly criticized blatant misuse” of the central agency for “vindictive reasons”.
He pointed out that Setalvad was a bold and brave activist who had litigated the case of 2002 anti-Muslim massacres in Gujarat which led to the conviction of prominent BJP leader and former minister Maya Kodnani and called this vendetta murder of justice.
He pointed out that Sreekumar while in service had filed four affidavits before the Justice (retired) G T Nanavati and Justice (retired) Akshay Mehta Commission that had been set up by the Gujarat government to probe the Godhra incident. In the affidavits, he had claimed to have exposed “the alleged collusion of government agencies with rioters” for which he is targeted now.
He said a day after the Supreme Court upheld the clean chit by the SIT to then CM of Gujarat Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots, the Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) arrested activist Teesta Setalvad and Sreekumar who backed the petitioner, Zakia Jafri.
Dr. Ilyas hailed Teesta Setalvad and Sreekumar for courageously exposing the criminal involvement of BJP leaders in the Gujarat riots and implored the citizens of the country to stand up in unison against this arrest.
