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*Withdraw FIR against Setalvad, CPM tells Gujarat govt* IANS | Jan 6, 2014, 05.05 PM IST NEW DELHI: The CPM <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CPM> on Monday asked the Gujarat government<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Gujarat-government>to withdraw the FIR <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/FIR> registered against rights activist Teesta Setalvad<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Teesta-Setalvad>, calling it "a most vindictive act". "The FIR filed in an Ahmedabad police station is a most vindictive act by the (Narendra) Modi government designed as a form of punishment for her fight for justice on behalf of Zakia Jafri and other victim families of the Gujarat violence in 2002," the party said in a statement. "It is a measure of the contempt for minimum democratic norms by the Modi government that it has time and again sought to suppress through threats, warnings, false FIRs and concocted stories all efforts by Setalvad and others to bring out the truth behind the role of the chief minister in the violence," it said. "The timing (of the FIR) is also suspect as Zakia Jafri is in the process of filing an appeal against the ruling of the lower court in favour of the SIT's clean chit to Modi. "The latest effort is condemnable," the Communist Party of India (Marxist) said. "The CPI-M demands that the FIR be withdrawn." -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
