New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ordered activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand to cooperate with the Gujarat Police in probing the case filed against them over alleged misappropriation of funds while refusing to interfere with the anticipatory bail it had granted her.A three-judge Bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia, and Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra was hearing a batch of pleas filed by Setalvad, her husband, and also by the Gujarat police and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arising out of first information reports (FIRs) in connection with alleged embezzlement of funds. The charge sheet in the case has not been filed for eight years, and the latest ruling makes the bail permanent.“Charge sheet has not yet been filed. ASG [additional solicitor general] submits that there is an element of lack of cooperation. Be that as it may, the respondents will cooperate with the investigation as and when required,” the Bench said, according to PTI, while disposing of a plea by the Gujarat government challenging the grant of anticipatory bail to Setalvad.The top court declined to interfere with the anticipatory bail it had granted to them in 2015, making its earlier order absolute. According to Bar and Bench, the top court had then said, “Whether liberty on the one hand and fair and effective investigation on the other, make out a case for extending the benefit under Section 438 CrPC [anticipatory bail]?”The Bench noted that significant time has passed in the matter and that no chargesheet has so far been filed. It also said nothing survived in the matter and the couple has been granted bail by courts in related matters.With the latest ruling,The couple is accused of misappropriating funds collected for building a ‘Museum of Resistance’ at the Gulbarg Housing Society in Ahmedabad, where over 60 persons were killed during the communal riots of 2002.