The bench comprising Chief Justice N.V. Ramana, Justices S. Kant and A.S. Bopanna was hearing the habeas corpus petition filed by Kerala Union of Working Journalists(KUWJ) seeking Kappan`s release.
SC asks UP govt to shift Kerala journalist Kappan to Delhi for treatment
IANS
28 April 2021
The bench comprising Chief Justice N.V. Ramana, Justices S. Kant and A.S. Bopanna was hearing the habeas corpus petition filed by Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) seeking Kappan s release.
The Court said that he has to be given treatment at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital or AIIMS or any other government hospital in Delhi and after recovery, he has to be sent back to Mathura jail, where he is under custody.
Kappan is charged with UAPA on the ground that he was trying to create communal unrest in UP after the Hathras gangrape-murder crime.
SC asks UP govt to shift Kappan to Delhi for treatment
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New Delhi, April 28 : The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the UP government to shift Kerala journalist Siddiqque Kappan lodged in Mathura Jail to a government hospital in Delhi for medical treatment.
The bench comprising Chief Justice N.V. Ramana, Justices S. Kant and A.S. Bopanna was hearing the habeas corpus petition filed by Kerala Union of Working Journalists(KUWJ) seeking Kappan s release.
The Court said that he has to be given treatment at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital or AIIMS or any other government hospital in Delhi and after recovery, he has to be sent back to Mathura jail, where he is under custody.
Malayalam journalist Siddique Kappan, arrested in October while on his way to Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras to report on the gang rape and murder of a Dalit girl, completed six months in custody on Wednesday, locked up in a Mathura jail on stringent anti-terror charges.
While the prosecution recently filed a chargesheet running into nearly 5,500 pages in a Mathura district court, Kappan’s family back home in Kerala is keeping their fingers crossed waiting for the Supreme Court to list a habeas corpus plea and hear a regular bail application. While the habeas corpus plea was filed a day after his arrest, the bail application was submitted a month later.
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