CHRONOLOGY-SETALVAD

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Mar 19 2015 | 3:42 PM IST
Following is the chronology of events in the case of alleged fund embezzlement for museum involving social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand in which the Supreme Court today referred the case to a larger bench.
Jan 4, 2014: FIR lodged against Setalvad, her husband, slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri's son Tanvir Jafri and two others for allegedly usurping Rs 1.51 crore collected by them for turning Gulbarg Society into a museum.
Jan 10: Bombay High Court grants interim bail to Teesta and her husband for 3 weeks.
Jan 31: Bombay HC grants transit anticipatory bail to Teesta and her husband till February 28.
Feb 24: SC refuses anticipatory bail to Teesta and her husband but extends interim protection from arrest till March end.
Feb 24: The couple files anticipatory bail pleas before a Ahmedabad sessions court.
Mar 25: Sessions court denies anticipatory bail to the couple and Tanvir.
Mar 27: All three approach the Gujarat HC seeking anticipatory bail.
Mar 28: Gujarat HC stays their arrest till April 4.
Apr 4: Gujarat HC stays arrest of all three which is extended time to time.
Apr 4: Bombay HC rejects Teesta's plea to quash FIR on fund misappropriation.
Aug 5: Gujarat HC stays arrests of all three and two more Gulbarg society's secretary Feroz Gulzar and Chairman Salim Sandhi.
Feb 12, 2015: Gujarat HC rejects anticipatory bail of Setalvad and her husband. They rush to SC same day and a bench headed by CJI H L Dattu stays arrest till Feb 13.
Feb 13: SC bench of justices S J Mukhopadhaya and N V Ramana gives protection from arrest to Setalvad and her husband till February 19 in the case.
Feb 19: A new SC bench of justices Dipak Misra and Adarsh Kumar Goel directs that Setalvad and her husband not be arrested, while asking them to provide list of documents and names of donors related to their NGOs in the case. It also says if the couple does not cooperate in probe, Gujarat Police can file application for cancellation of their bail.
Feb 24: Gujarat Police provides Supreme Court a list of documents, including personal expenditure of Setalvad and her husband, it needed in its probe against them.
Feb 26: SC asks Gujarat Police to give Setalvad and her husband the list of documents needed from them in the probe against them as the couple said they have not received the list, the report of which has been in a section of media.
Mar 19: SC refers to a larger bench the petition filed by Setalvad and her husband while extending the protection against arrest till the larger bench takes up the matter.
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First Published: Mar 19 2015 | 3:42 PM IST

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