The Supreme Court on Friday deferred the hearing on the anticipatory bail plea of social activist Teesta Setalvad in the Gulbarg Society fund embezzlement case till February 19.
"The court has requested some documents from both parties. The next hearing will be held on February 19," said senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan.
The apex court had earlier on Thursday stayed till Friday the arrest of Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand, soon after Gujarat High Court rejected their anticipatory bail plea in a case of alleged embezzlement of funds for a museum at Gulbarg society, devastated in the 2002 riots.
Setalvad and her husband have been booked by the Crime Branch of Gujarat Police on charges of cheating, breach of trust and under the IT Act in a matter relating to the construction of "Museum of Resistance" in the Gulbarg society in Ahmedabad which was hit by communal riots in 2002.