The city sessions court here has rejected social activist Teesta Setalvad’s application for extension of time to re-deposit her passport with the court.
Additional sessions judge Rohen K Chudawala rejected Setalvad’s plea on Monday, observing that she must cooperate with the probe and ordered her to return the passport by today. Setalvad, who has been relentlessly supporting the cause of 2002 post-Godhra riots victims, is facing a criminal case for uploading an “objectionable” image depicting Hindu deities on the Twitter.
While granting her anticipatory bail in the case, the court had asked her to deposit the passport. Sometime ago, she collected the passport back as she wanted to travel and later applied that she be allowed to keep it until August 15.