AGRA: Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan was on Friday taken to AIIMS, Delhi from UP’s Mathura jail, two days after the Supreme Court directed the Uttar Pradesh government to transfer him to a better health facility in the national capital.
Senior superintendent of Mathura jail, Shailendra Maitrey, said, “Kappan was taken to AIIMS in an ambulance on Friday morning. A jail doctor and deputy jailor were also with him.”
On Wednesday, the apex court had directed the state government to shift Kappan to Delhi for treatment after his medical reports revealed that he had multiple health issues like diabetes, heart ailment, blood pressure, and bodily injury.
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Drugged family before killing
On the intervening night of April 14 and 15, 2008, Shabnam drugged her family and slaughtered them. She was seven weeks pregnant with her lover Saleem s child.
Shabnam s family members were against her relationship with Saleem. Both came from different socio-economic backgrounds and caste.
Her family, Saifi Muslims, were well-to-do landholders, while Saleem, a Pathan, was a class VI dropout, and worked as a daily wager.
Shabnam, a school teacher was in a relationship with Saleem who used to work as a daily wager.
Shabnam s family owned around 30 bigha of land. Her father was an Arts teacher in the local college.
“We have not received any death warrant but have started preparing … Last year in February, the executioner, Pawan Jallad, had inspected the hanging house. He said that there was a problem with the structure of the gallows. We are fixing that now. We have also just ordered two hanging ropes from Bihar’s Buxar central jail,” Mathura senior jail superintendent Shailendra Maitrey told TOI on Wednesday.
Built 150 years ago, the gallows has never been used in independent India. Step-sisters Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit have been on death row for kidnapping 13 children and killing at least five of them. A woman from Lucknow, Ramshri, had been sentenced to death in 1998 but it was commuted to life imprisonment after she gave birth to a child in prison. So, the hanging house, with creaking structures and covered in overgrowth with decades of disuse, would take a while to set in order should a death warrant be issued.