After being taken into prison on Saturday by the Gujarat ATS, activist Teesta Setalvad is once again making headlines in the media, know her biography, bungalow and husband name
After receiving harsh criticism from Home Minister Amit Shah for misinforming police about the 2002 Gujarat riots, word of Seetalvad’s arrest by the ATS broke just hours later.
Know Who Is Teesta Setalvad, Biography, Age, Husband Name, Family, NGO, Bungalow, Arrest News
Do you know that Teesta Setalvad has a super plush bungalow, Niraant, in Juhu, Mumbai?
Just 3-4 bungalows away from 'Pratiksha', Amitabh Bachchan 's bungalow.
It's a 3 acre area bungalow, almost thrice the size of Big B's 🏡 & has a loan of Rs 3 cr pending.
She runs an NGO 😳
— Mayank Jindal (@MJ_007Club) June 25, 2022
When the inquiry raised against Ford Foundation in 2015, the case was "funding the Sabrang NGO with $200K in 2008 for fuelling communalisation in society".
Sabrang NGO run by Teesta Setalvad.
1/ pic.twitter.com/395p5WBorg— The Hawk Eye (@thehawkeyex) June 25, 2022
For 20 years, Teesta Setalvad is training and teaching eye-witnesses to blame PM Modi for Gujarat 2002 riots. She is accused in multi relief fund fraud she collected in the name of Human Rights. SC gave her relief because 'amount was not big'.
Gujarat ATS has detained her today. pic.twitter.com/vyK9G52skx
— Facts (@BefittingFacts) June 25, 2022
Dear Friends, Here is all the EVIDENCE AGAINST TEESTA SETALVAD and her unpardonable crimes against Mother India & Mr. Modi. We have been compiling this exhaustive list since the last 12 years or so https://t.co/B7rpmiKVE8 @narendramodi
— François Gautier (@fgautier26) June 25, 2022
Remember this? Lying witch Teesta Setalvad hates Hindus so much that she compares Kali Mata to ISIS kiIIers. Of course she is a stinking coward too, so she quietly deleted this tweet without an apology. pic.twitter.com/BeqYWPMVaM
— Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳 (@ShefVaidya) June 26, 2022
Retired Judge MB Soni, revealed, he found that any petition related to Gujarat Riots filed by Teesta in SC, goes to the bench of Justice Aftab Alam .
It was later found out Aftab Alam 's daughter Arusa Alam is a partner in Teesta Setalvad's NGO Citizens for Justice & Peace .— Mongering Monk (@MongeringM) June 25, 2022
Supreme Court's observation on Teesta Setalvad are damming. SC observes a fake concocted narrative peddled by Teesta to defame PM @narendramodi in Gujarat. Teesta, or Rana Ayub the Lutyens are full of Liars, who hate India & people to the core. Beware of them always!
— Pradeep Bhandari(प्रदीप भंडारी)🇮🇳 (@pradip103) June 24, 2022
Fraud activist and 'riot relief fund' scamster Teesta Setalvad is great granddaughter of Chimanlal Harilal Setalvad who was member of the infamous ‘Hunter Commission’ on Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Commission gave clean chit to General Dyer who ordered the firing on civilians.
n1 pic.twitter.com/6qGvAs3gDp— Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 (@KanchanGupta) June 26, 2022
Shah was responding to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Zakia Jafri’s appeal about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s exoneration, who served as Gujarat’s chief minister during the riot 20 years ago. Jafri’s appeal was deemed “devoid of merits” by a Supreme Court panel of three judges. Ehsan Jafri, a former Congressman, is Jafri’s husband, who got killed in the Gujrat riots.
“Antecedents of Teesta Setalvad need to be reckoned with,” a three-judge panel led by Justice AM Khanwilkar said in a statement on Friday, “and also because she has been vindictively victimising this lis [dispute] for her underlying political design by trying to exploit the emotional responses and sentiments of Zakia Jafri, the true victim of the circumstances.”
Teesta Setalvad: Who Is She?
A former journalist turned activist; Teesta Setlavad has been involved in the Gujarat riots case. She established Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), claiming that it will represent the interests of the riot victims in 2002. In numerous cases involving the pogrom, her organisation participated.
On the other hand, the Supreme Court declared on Friday that Seetalvad had used the petitioner Zakia Jafri’s emotions for “ulterior reasons” with her also tutoring the witnesses to lie infront of the Supreme Court SIT along with herself fabricating reports to keep peddling her propaganda. She and her spouse founded the periodical Communalism Combat in 1993. This was allegedly done in response to the nationwide rioting caused by the destruction of the Babri Masjid.
With Cedric Prakash, Anil Dharker, Alyque Padamsee, Javed Akhtar, Vijay Tendulkar, and Rahul Bose, she founded Citizens for Justice and Peace in 2002 to handle the legal work for the victims of the 2002 riots.
Husband
In 1962, Seetalvad was conceived in a Gujarati household. Atul Setalvad, her father, was a Mumbai-based attorney. The first Attorney General of India was her paternal grandpa, MC Setalvad.
Javed Anand, a journalist who later became a fighter for minority rights, refers to Setalvad as her husband. They have two children, one son and a daughter.
Net Worth
The BJP has consistently criticised Setalvad for milking the plight of the 2002 victims to obtain foreign donations, a claim that she has refuted. The federal investigation agency CBI filed a case against her and her husband in 2015, alleging that Sabrang Communications, the company they run, received foreign funding in violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), receiving $290,000 (Rs 2 crore) lakh from of the Ford Foundation despite being ineligible.
Citizens for Justice and Peace of Setalvad had their FCRA licence revoked by the Indian home minister in 2016 under the Modi administration. As a result, the CJP was no longer able to collect funds from abroad. The theft of monies collected in the name of riot victims from 2002 was also the subject of an FIR filed in Gujarat against Setalvad and her husband.
Regarding Setalvad’s net worth, nothing is known but it runs into several 100 crores. Born on 6 February, 1962, she is aged 60 years.