On October 5 last year, Masud Ahmed was travelling through Mathura, a town in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, when a team of police officers waved him over.
The officers, who were manning a checkpoint, asked him and three co-passengers questions including their names, affiliation and purpose of travel.
Wearing a grey button-down shirt, a blue hat with his beard trimmed short, the 26-year-old student activist told the officers they were on their way to Hathras, a small town in Uttar Pradesh state 43km (26 miles) from Mathura and about 200km (124 miles) from the capital, New Delhi.
The four were going to meet the family of a 19-year-old Dalit teenager who had been gang-raped by four Hindu upper-caste men three weeks before their journey.
Dubai: Every week, my mom sits in our comfy sofa with her glasses on, taking one booklet from a pile of similar ones – pen in hand. We usually make fun of her, for looking very serious and teacher-like, as she marks, circles and crosses out things in four or five different booklets.
Each booklet is one of the promotional offers brochures that supermarkets in the area distribute to residential buildings – you might have seen them in your reception area and ignored them. These - along with a few well-planned SMS subscriptions and Facebook page alerts - are what help my mom buy everything we need, and want, on a budget.
SC says right to life embraces even undertrial, orders shifting of Kappan to Delhi for treatment
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SC says right to life embraces even undertrial, orders shifting of Kappan to Delhi for treatmentPTI
Last Updated: Apr 29, 2021, 02:27 PM IST
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Synopsis It would be in the interest of justice to shift Siddique Kappan - the arrestee, either to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital or to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) or any other Government Hospital in Delhi for the proper medical treatment. The needful shall in this regard be done at the earliest, the bench said in its order uploaded last Wednesday night.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to shift arrested journalists Siddique Kappan to a government hospital in Delhi for his treatment but disposed of the Kerala Union of Working Journalist s plea seeking his release.
The SC said once Kappan is treated and certified to be fine, he would be taken back to Mathura jail. “It is open for Kappan thereafter to apply for regular bai before a competent court,” the apex court said.
“We are confined to health issue. It is in the interest of the state also that the accused gets better treatment,” the bench observed.