New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday permitted activist Teesta Setalvad to travel to Malaysia for a conference , with the condition that she file an undertaking to return to India. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan allowed her plea to attend an anti-racism conference from Aug 31 to Sep10 in Kuala Lumpur. Setalvad sought the SC's approval as the apex court had last year directed that her passport would remain with a trial court, when it had granted her bail in a case of alleged fabrication of documents to frame innocent people in the 2002 post-Godhra riot cases.
"The petitioner (Setalvad) shall file an undertaking before this court that she will return to India as scheduled and face the trial," the bench said, adding that she shall also furnish a solvent surety of Rs 10 lakh to the satisfaction of the session court. The court directed her to deposit her passport with the trial judge after returning to India. On July 19 last year, the apex court had quashed the July 1 order of Gujarat High Court, which had denied bail to Setalvad in the case.
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