The Congress on Saturday refuted the "mischievous charges" against late Ahmed Patel alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "political vendetta machine" does not even "spare the departed" who were his "political adversaries".

An affidavit filed by Gujarat Police's Special Investigating Team before the sessions court claimed that Teesta Setalvad was part of a larger conspiracy, hatched at the behest of late Congress leader Ahmed Patel, to destabilise the BJP-led Gujarat government after the 2002 Gujarat riots.