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.
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Kappan, arrested on October 5 last year while on the way to Hathras which was home to a young Dalit woman who died after being gang-raped allegedly by four upper-caste men, is currently lodged in Medical College Hospital, Mathura, after he was found positive for COVID-19 on April 21.
Raihanth Kappan claimed in the latter written to the Chief Justice of India that Kappan received injuries on April 20 after falling in the jail bathroom and was reported COVID positive a day later.
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Kappan, who tested COVID positive, is chained like an animal in a cot of the hospital without mobility, and he neither could take food, nor could go to the toilet and is very critical , says the letter.
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New Delhi: Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan’s lawyer has written to Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana seeking his immediate intervention to release Kappan from Mathura Medical College to Mathura Jail as he has tested COVID-19 positive and is in a critical condition. The letter is written on behalf of the wife Raihanth Kappan.
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