updated: Jul 11 2021, 08:36 ist
It would seem like being a Kashmiri is a sure-fire way to get booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967. There is no other way to explain the detention of Bashir Ahmad Baba. Eleven years ago, Baba, who was 33 at the time, had gone to Gujarat to attend a camp on post-cancer care, when the Gujarat Anti-terror Squad arrested him, accusing him of being a Hizbul Mujahideen “talent-hunter”.
Only last month, he was acquitted by a local court after the police had no evidence to support the charges. But life had already changed a lot for Baba he lost his father during his decade-long struggle to prove his innocence, leaving him nursing a life-long regret. “I could not attend the last rites of my father, who died of cancer,” Baba said, having been denied bail to attend his father’s funeral.
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Journalist Siddique Kappan’s wife sends contempt notice to UP govt
By Live Law| Posted by SM Bilal | Updated: 9th May 2021 12:46 pm IST
New Delhi: The Wife of Journalist Siddique Kappan, Raihanath Kappan has sent a notice of contempt (through Advocate Wills Mathews) to the Uttar Pradesh Government Alleging Non-Compliance of Supreme Court’s Order dated April 28 and also, for submitting wrong/misleading information before the SC regarding his medical status.
Significantly, the Supreme Court had, on April 28 directed that Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan be shifted from Mathura Jail in Uttar Pradesh to a government hospital in Delhi for medical treatment.
Journalist Siddique Kappan shifted to Mathura from AIIMS despite still being unwell, alleges lawyer
The jail officials confirmed that he has been shifted, but said that the transfer was done after Kappan was discharged from AIIMS. Journalist Siddique Kappan.
The lawyer of jailed journalist Siddique Kappan has alleged that his client has been transferred back from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital in Delhi to Mathura Jail in Uttar Pradesh, even though he was still unwell,
The Indian Express reported on Sunday.
Mathura Jail Superintendent Shailendra Maitreyi confirmed that Kappan had been brought back to the prison on Thursday night and kept in an isolation ward, reported
Siddique Kappan discharged from AIIMS, taken back to jail without communication to his family, lawyer
Kappan was brought to Mathura Central Jail at 2.30 am today.
07 May, 2021
Arrested journalist Siddique Kappan has been discharged from AIIMS in Delhi and taken back to Mathura Jail in Uttar Pradesh, Kappan s wife Raihanath told
Newslaundry. Kappan, who is Covid positive, was shifted without any communication from the authorities to his family or lawyer.
Kappan was brought to Mathura Central Jail at 2.30 am today, the jail superintendent Shailendra Kumar Maitreya told the
Quint, and has been kept in isolation because he still hasn t tested negative for Covid.