India on Wednesday said that the demands of the United Nations’ human rights body to release activist Teesta Setalvad and others, are ‘completely unwarranted’ and it constitutes an ‘interference in India’s independent judicial system’.
In response to media queries, foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that the ‘authorities in India act against violations of law strictly in accordance with established judicial processes’.
Bagchi further added that ‘labelling such legal actions as persecution for activism is misleading and unacceptable’.
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights had earlier expressed ‘concern;’ post the Gujarat Police arrested her hours after the Supreme Court dismissed Zakia Jafri’s plea against clean chit to Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots case.
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