The Supreme Court Friday extended by four weeks the interim protection from arrest granted to Teesta Setalvad and her husband in a case of alleged embezzlement of funds for a museum at Ahmedabad’s Gulbarg Society that was devastated in the 2002 riots.
A bench comprising Justices A R Dave and Adarsh Kumar Goel said that the interim protection from arrest will continue till October 15.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal mentioned the issue on behalf of the couple, saying that the interim order was expiring on September 15. Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand have challenged the order of the Gujarat High Court denying them anticipatory bail in the case.
The High Court order was stayed by the apex court and has been pending to be heard by a three-judge bench. The apex court had constituted a three-judge bench to hear a fresh anticipatory bail plea of Setalvad and her husband as a two-judge bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Adarsh Kumar Goel had referred it to a larger bench and extended its interim order protecting them against arrest till the larger bench takes up the matter.