SC restrains police from arresting Teesta Setalvad till February 19

New Delhi: In a relief for activist Teesta Setalvad, the Supreme Court has extended the stay on her arrest in Gulbarg Society fund embezzlement case till 19 February.

It said that the allegations against Setalvad are grave and the court has also warned her counsel against bringing politics into the case.

Police had sought her arrest after the Gujarat High Court rejected her anticipatory bail plea in connection with the embezzlement case. Officials who reached her Juhu residence could not locate her or her husband.

Setalvad is accused of diverting Rs 1.5 crores of donations given for the construction of a museum at the 2002-riot hit Gulbarg Society.