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Teesta
denies fabricating riot victims' affidavits
Thursday November 25, 2010 10:19:37 PM,
IANS
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Gandhinagar:
Activist Teesta Setalvad, general secretary of Citizens for
Justice and Peace (CJP), has denied allegations made by a former
associate that she fabricated affidavits of the 2002 Gujarat
communal riot victims.
Her denial came in a counter-affidavit filed Thursday before the
Justices G.T. Nanavati-Akshay Mehta enquiry commission probing the
Godhra train carnage and the subsequent communal riots in Gujarat
in 2002.
She refuted the charges made against her in an affidavit filed
before the commission by former CJP employee, Rais Khan Pathan,
who worked as field co-ordinator in Ahmedabad.
Setalvad pointed out that Pathan was removed from the services of
the CJP Jan 18, 2008, by the board of trustees after complaints of
misappropriation of funds.
She denied that she fabricated the affidavits filed by the riot
victims and witnesses and claimed that they were given by the
victims in Ahmedabad and they stood by their versions even in the
affidavits filed in the Supreme Court.
She claimed that the CJP had received a number of complaints
against Pathan of amassing wealth disproportionate to his known
sources of income.
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