After the Supreme Court dismissed a petition appealing a lower court’s refusal to file a case against Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, the state’s police have arrested one of the petitioners – activist Teesta Setalvad – for a "conspiracy to send innocent persons to jail".

The Wire's Arfa Khanum Sherwani speaks to activist Shabnam Hashmi and lawyer Prashant Bhushan about the history of the SIT that was formed to investigate cases related to the violence and what effect Setalvad's arrest will have on civil society.

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