Mumbai-based activist Teesta Setalvad is in for fresh trouble as surviving residents of the destroyed Gulbarg Society have provided proofs of her organising various functions at the premises and making false promises.
In a letter to the Assistant Commissioner of Police, some residents of the Gulbarg Society have sent photographs of Setalvad posing with many of them on the anniversaries of the massacre in which 69 people were killed during the bandh following the Sabarmati Express inferno at Godhra on February 27, 2002.
Earlier in March this year, as many as 11 surviving residents of the Gulbarg Society had written to the Joint Commissioner of police about Setalvad making false promises to them about providing financial support.
Along with the latest letter to the ACP (SOG) Crime Branch, the former Gulbarg Soceity residents have attached nearly half a dozen photographs of them posing with Setalvad.
The photographs attached with the letter show the residents along with Setalvad holding aloft placards with the ruined houses in the backdrop. In one of the photographs, Setalvad was herself shown doing videography as the residents were lined up with placards provided by her NGO.
“Even small children aged 4-5 years were used by her to carry such placards”, the letter to the Assistant Commissioner of Police complained.
All the functions at the Gulbarg Society were properly photographed and videographed by her which were later shown to national and international organisations, said in the letter written by Firoz Sayeedkhan Pathan and others.
To prove their point, the residents sent four photographs of Gulbarg Society functions in which they are standing with placards and banners along with two children also carrying banners in their hands.
The letter pointed out the Setalvad had made the promises of financial support to the residents in the presence of the media. These photographic proofs provided by the Gulbarg Society residents now paves the way for the police to throughly investigate the complaints made against Setalvad about the promises of financial help which have not been fullfilled.