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| Activist Teesta Setalvad Gets Bail, |
| Activist Teesta Setalvad Gets Bail, Court Stresses Right to Dissent
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| INDIA
, 11-August-2015
8:4:35 AM |
| Activist Teesta Setalvad, described controversially as "a risk to national security" by the CBI, has been granted anticipatory bail by the Bombay High Court.
Ms Setalvad and her husband, Javed Anand, have been accused of violating financial laws in connection with funding given to them by the US-based Ford Foundation.
While granting bail to the couple, the court said today, "It appears that there may be some kind of misuse of the amount", pointing to early evidence of foreign exchange laws.
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But the court stressed, that it does not see "any threat to sovereignty and integrity of state or a threat to security, strategic or economic interest or public interest".
The judge added that in a democracy, the government is obliged to protect "the right to have a different view" and said, "a dissenting view cannot be said to be against the sovereignty of the nation".
Ms Setalvad, 53, has also been charged by the Gujarat police of embezzling funds donated to the non-profits she runs for victims of the communal riots that seared the state in 2002. She has denied any wrongdoing in all the cases brought against her, and claims that she is being persecuted for her legal attempts to hold Prime Minister Narendra Modi complicit in the violence. The Supreme Court has said there is no evidence that as Chief Minister at the
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