Teesta Setalvad date of birth:
1962
How old is Teesta Setalvad?
64
What is Teesta Setalvad nationality?
Indian
What is Teesta Setalvad's occupation?
Civil rights activist and journalist
Short Biography
Teesta Setalvad (born 1962) is an Indian civil rights activist and journalist. She is the secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), an organisation formed for fighting for justice for the victims of communal violence in the state of Gujarat in 2002. CJP is a co-petitioner seeking a criminal trial of Narendra Modi, the then Chief Minister of Gujarat and the current Prime minister of India and sixty-two other politicians and government officials for complicity in the Gujarat violence of 2002 and whose names did not figure in any of the FIRs /charge sheets that formed the subject matter of the various Session Trials regarding the riots at that point of time. Four of the accused since then were charge-sheeted, of whom Dr. Maya Kodnani and Babu Bajrangi have already been convicted.