Paediatrician Kafeel Khan, a Gorakhpur doctor who was arrested twice by the Uttar Pradesh government and has emerged as a symbol of resistance against State oppression, held a free medical camp for children here on Thursday.
“This is my eighth camp in Jharkhand and I will attend two more one at Madhupur and another at Godda this time,” Khan told The Telegraph.
Advertisement
The Ranchi camp, held at the Haj House, was the 94th held across the country in the past three months, since Khan and a like-minded doctor Harjit Singh launched a child-health initiative called “Doctors on Road” on April 14, he said.
AGRA/LUCKNOW: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by the Uttar Pradesh government against the Allahabad high court order that had quashed Dr Kafeel Khan’s detention under the National Security Act (NSA) in September. We see no reason to interfere, a three-judge bench of Chief Justice of India S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian said. Criminal cases against Khan will be decided on their own merits , the bench added.
Khan had been held at Mathura jail for seven months after he delivered a speech during the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act at Aligarh Muslim University which the government deemed provocative . The high court had, while allowing his release, observed that his speech does not disclose any effort to promote hatred or violence . It, instead, gives a call for national integrity and unity… (and) deprecates any kind of violence .