SC rejects plea to release TEESTA's passport, seeks travel itinerary
New Delhi, April 30 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed its disinclination to release the passport of social activist Teesta Setalvad insisting that as and when she submits an itinerary to travel abroad, her request for release of passport shall be considered.
Setalvad had deposited her passport with a trial court in Gujarat as part of a bail condition imposed by the top court in July 2023 while directing her release on bail in a case of alleged fabrication of evidence in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases.
Taking up the plea, a bench of justices Dipankar Datta, SC Sharma and Alok Aradhe said, "We will not allow the return of your passport like this. You can share your itinerary. For getting the passport, you have to make out a case."
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