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Mon, Dec 14 2020 09:17:13 PM
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS): The Uttar Pradesh government has informed the Supreme Court that documents found during searches from the home of the arrested Kerala based journalist Sidhique Kappan disclose crucial information/journey of the very formation of PFI (Popular Front of India) as a reincarnation of SIMI after it being banned.
In an additional affidavit, Department of Home Affairs, Uttar Pradesh, citing several incriminating documents found from Kappan s house, said: these documents disclose crucial information/journey of the very formation of PFI (Popular Front of India) as a reincarnation of SIMI after it being banned, also that motive and ideology of both the organizations - PFI and SIMI - are corroborative in nature. The search operation was conducted on November 11, after obtaining due remand orders from the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mathura.
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New Delhi [India], December 14 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned for the third week of January a plea seeking immediate release of a senior Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, who was arrested along with some others by the Uttar Pradesh Police on October 5 while on their way to cover the Hathras incident.
A bench, headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde, adjourned the matter after the senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ), sought time to file a reply to the additional affidavit filed by the Uttar Pradesh government.
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Siddique Kappan (with cap), secretary of the Kerala Union of Working Journalists, and three others who were held with him were produced before a court in Mathura. (PTI)
Opposing a plea by the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ), which has sought release of its member Siddique Kappan, the Uttar Pradesh government has sought to link him to the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and has told the Supreme Court that he went to Hathras on the “instructions of” Delhi riots case accused Md Danish.
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