The Supreme Court on Saturday granted activist Teesta Setalvad a week’s protection from arrest by staying a Gujarat High Court order directing her to surrender immediately.
Setalvad was asked to “surrender immediately” by the Gujarat High Court on in a case linked to the 2002 Gujarat riots after rejecting her bail plea earlier on Saturday.
The Supreme Court gave her interim protection in a decision that came at 10 p.m. on Saturday .
Justices Abhay S. Oka and Prashant Kumar Mishra, who first heard the matter in a special hearing, urged the Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud, to assign the case to a larger bench as the two judges were unable to agree on a decision.
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