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
ON August 8, 2020, ten Muslim women from Subhash Mohalla in Delhi went to the Bhajanpura police station to make the police register a first information report on their complaint that some men had tried to foment communal tension in their locality on August 5.
Two of the women and a 16-year-old girl, who went inside the police station, later alleged that the officers had manhandled and molested them. The officers denied the allegations.
Two journalists, Shahid Tantray of Caravan magazine and freelancer Prabhjit Singh, who visited the police station, said something had happened to the girl. “She was in shock,” said Tantray. “In the morning we spoke to her and filed a story about the molestation and assault.”
Killings, attacks and intimidation: Journalism under fire across borders
Illustration: Noor Us Safa Anik
For the first time, media organisations in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal are coming together to report about the killings, attacks, harassment, and intimidation of journalists in these South Asian countries. It is the first such collaboration by media outlets in the region.
By Nirmal Jovial
On the evening of August 8, 2020, ten women from Subhash Mohalla in North East Delhi proceeded to the Bhajanpura police station to make the police register a first information report on a complaint they had made two days before. The complaint was that some men had tried to foment communal tension in their locality. The complainants said the men had abused Muslims, tied saffron flags near a mosque and burst crackers in celebration of a ceremony for the construction of a temple at faraway Ayodhya on August 5.
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that an undertrial prisoner’s right to life does not diminish even a wee bit when in jail as an accused for an offence and said such a person’s health concerns have to be taken care of by the state and, if not done so, by the judiciary.
This ruling was handed down by a bench of CJI N V Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and A S Bopanna directing the Uttar Pradesh government to shift arrested journalist Siddique Kappan to a government hospital in Delhi. The UP government had opposed the move tooth and nail saying admitting Kappan to any of Delhi’s hospitals, all of which are overflowing with Covid patients, would result in denying facilities to a critical Covid patient.