Some Oxygen For Siddique Kappan, Please?
An extraordinary story unfolds, mostly away from public eyes: a journalist is condemned to seemingly endless prison for merely trying to report news. Even a Supreme Court order goes abegging.
Mrudula Bhavani 12 May 2021, Last Updated at 10:35 am outlookindia.com 2021-05-12T10:35:20+05:30
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If democracy is the name of our body politic, freedom is its oxygen. Its most precious resource, without which only the dirge remains to be sung. At a time when the case of Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal and her now-deceased scientist-father Mahavir Narwal is all over the headlines, there’s another unfolding story of equally dire colours that has been less than visible. This is the case of Delhi-based Malayali journalist Siddique Kappan.
Updated Feb 21, 2021 | 15:09 IST
The cops also seized pamphlet, CDs and DVDs and pen drives, poster, placards and banners from the PFI office located near Shaheen Bagh. PFI office raided by UP STF
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The PFI office is located near Crisp hospital in Shaheenbagh
On Tuesday, UP STF had arrested two persons connected to PFI; they were planning to target those holding important positions in Hindu organisations
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) conducted raids at the Popular Front of India’s office located in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area.
The cops also seized pamphlet, CDs and DVDs and pen drives, poster, placards and banners from their office.
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UP STF raids Delhi offices of PFI, its student wing
The Uttar Pradesh police s Special Task Force Sunday raided the Delhi offices of Popular Front of India and its student wing CFI, officials said, days after a CFI leader was sent to five-day police custody for allegedly funding PFI members to create unrest after the Hathras gangrape incident.
On February 17, a court in Mathura had sent PFI s student wing leader Rauf Shareef to five-day police custody.
Uttar Pradesh STF Inspector General Amitabh Yash told reporters, A probe by the STF is underway in a case registered in Mant police station of Mathura. Based on information retrieved during interrogation, search and seizure are being done in the offices of PFI and CFI located in Delhi, after obtaining search warrant from court.