times news networkmumbaiahmedabad gujarat polices antiterrorism squad ats detained mumbaibased activist teesta setalvad and arrested former state dgp rb sreekumar on saturday in connection with an fir filed in ahmedabad against them and jailed exips officer sanjiv bhatt alleging criminal conspiracy forgery and placing false evidence in court to frame innocent people in the 2002 gujarat riots casesetalvads detention in mumbai and sreekumars arrest in ahmedabad came a day after the supreme court dismissed a petition challenging the sit clean chit to then gujarat cm narendra modi in the 2002 riots case the apex court said all those involved in such abuse of process need to be in the dock and proceeded with in accordance with lawthe fir naming setalvad and the two former ips officers had been registered by the ahmedabad crime branch hours before ats officials knocked on her door in mumbai as part of detention procedure the team first took her to santacruz police station where she lodged a complaint claiming illegal arrest and a threat to her life sources saidthe team bringing setalvad to ahmedabad was expected to reach the city late saturday exdgp sreekumar was taken into custody in the evening after being summoned to the crime branch headquarters at gaekwad haveli for interrogation earlier in the day and then sent for a covid test coaccused bhatt who is in palanpur jail facing trial in a case of planting drugs on a suspect will be arrested after the police obtain a transfer warrant from the court sources saidthe fir lodged by inspector db barad of the ahmedabad city crime branch against setalvad and the two exips officers alleges that they fraudulently passed off forged documents as genuine with intent to procure conviction of capital punishment against those whom the sit had clearedsetalvad specifically stands accused of conjuring concocting forging and fabricating facts and documents including witnesses testimonies and influencing and tutoring witnesses the allegations are based on the crossexamination of zakia jafri during the gulbarg massacre trial setalvads ngo supported jafri who had filed the petition alleging a larger conspiracy behind the riots throughout her legal battlebhatt has been accused of making false claims in 2011 that he was present at a meeting at modis then residence on february 27 2002 he alleged that the erstwhile cm asked bureaucrats to go slow on rioters the fir also charges bhatt with furnishing forged documents in order to implicate various persons the complaint states that the sit probe revealed he colluded with people who had vested interest and ngos and political functionaries who wanted to settle scores by framing innocent individuals bhatt allegedly received incentives for this the fir states while making a case for a detailed investigationsreekumar is accused of making false claims in his affidavits before the godhra inquiry commission the then dgp had alleged that he was illegally issued verbal orders that he recorded in a semiofficial diary the fir also accuses sreekumar of resorting to antedating in his controversial diary and using official