Order reserved on Teesta’s plea for quashing FIR

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday reserved its order in a case where social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand sought quashing of an FIR filed against them for the alleged embezzlement of funds meant for converting Gulbarg Society into a “Museum of Resistance” after the 2002 riots.

The couple had also challenged police’s move of freezing their bank accounts along with those of their trusts, operated from Mumbai.

A sessions court in Gujarat on Tuesday rejected the anticipatory bail application of the couple and three others in the same case. Reserving the order, the Division Bench of Justices N H Patil and A M Thipsay said the pertinent question was whether breach of trust, siphoning of funds took place in the city or not.