CBI Searches Teesta Setalvad's House in Mumbai

CBI Searches Teesta Setalvad's House in Mumbai

A team of CBI officers are conducting searches at activist Teesta Setalvad's house in Juhu on Tuesday morning.

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A team of CBI officers are conducting searches at activist Teesta Setalvad's house in Juhu on Tuesday morning. The CBI sleuths carried out searches at four places in Mumbai at the premises of Setalvad, her husband Javed Anand, Gulam Mohammed Peshimam and office of Sabrang Communications and Publishing, a move flayed by the social activist who said that she was cooperating with the CBI. "We are surprised and shocked at this," Teesta said, adding, "We have been offering full cooperation." "We had written a letter to CBI offering full cooperation and telling the agency that whatever so-called offences are registered against us, we will cooperate. So we don't understand the rationale behind this entire operation," Setalvad, who was at fore front of campaign for 2002 Gujarat riots victims, said. "We believe that it is a caged-parrot in operation and its a political vendetta and they are trying to humiliate and intimidate us," she said, noting "the team here is very professional but we don't know where it will end". The raid is in connection with a case filed against her in Gujarat where she is accused of appropriating funds collected for her NGO, which was helping victims of the communal riots in that state. She has denied all charges and her plea to prevent an arrest went all the way to the Supreme Court. Setalvad was at home when the team from the Central Bureau of Investigation arrived on Tuesday. Earlier in June, when there were rumours that her house was being raided, she had told TOI, "It is a brazen attempt to stifle freedom of expression and assembly. we have violated no law. These endless multiple enquiries first by Gujarat and now by the Centre show that this government has nothing better to do than prosecute and persecute those who have stood up for the marginalized."