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Following the completion of police remand, a magisterial court sent activist Teesta Setalvad and former Director-General of Police (DGP) RB Sreekumar to judicial custody on Saturday, 2 July.
No bail application has been moved yet, and their judicial custody will continue until bail is granted to them, The Indian Express reported.
The two were produced before metropolitan magistrate S P Patel. The police did not seek their further remand, said special public prosecutor Amit Patel.
Former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who is serving a life sentence in a custodial death case at a jail at Palanpur in Banaskantha district, is also an accused in the case.
The case is based on a complaint filed by Darshansinh B Barad, Police Inspector, Detection of Crime Branch Ahmedabad City. The complaint cites the Supreme Court's judgment from Friday in Zakia Jafri's plea challenging the SIT probe in the Gujarat riots case.
Setalvad was detained hours after Home Minister Amit Shah said in an interview that her NGO had spread "baseless" information regarding the 2002 Gujarat riots.
While Sreekumar was arrested last Saturday, 25 June, Setalvad was picked up by the Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad from her home in Mumbai the following day.
The Gujarat government has formed a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by the DIG, Gujarat ATS Deepan Bhadran to investigate the case.
(With inputs from PTI and The Indian Express.)
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