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  • Lucknow court docket points order to launch journalist Siddique Kappan from jail

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: A court docket right here on Monday issued the discharge order of journalist Siddique Kappan, who was lodged in jail after his arrest in October 2020 whereas he was on his approach to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, the place a Dalit lady had died after allegedly being raped.

    Kappan, a journalist from Kerala, was not too long ago granted bail by the Supreme Court. He was booked underneath numerous sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Information Technology (IT) Act.

    Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Anurodh Mishra directed Kappan to furnish two sureties of Rs 1 lakh every and a private bond of the identical quantity.

    The decide additionally sought an enterprise from the journalist that he wouldn’t breach the circumstances imposed on him by the apex court docket.

    Kappan together with three others — Athikur Rehman, Alam and Masood — have been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police on October 5, 2020.

    The Dalit lady had died at a Delhi hospital a fortnight after she was allegedly gang-raped on September 14, 2020. She was cremated in the midst of the evening in her village.

    LUCKNOW: A court docket right here on Monday issued the discharge order of journalist Siddique Kappan, who was lodged in jail after his arrest in October 2020 whereas he was on his approach to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, the place a Dalit lady had died after allegedly being raped.

    Kappan, a journalist from Kerala, was not too long ago granted bail by the Supreme Court. He was booked underneath numerous sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Information Technology (IT) Act.

    Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Anurodh Mishra directed Kappan to furnish two sureties of Rs 1 lakh every and a private bond of the identical quantity.

    The decide additionally sought an enterprise from the journalist that he wouldn’t breach the circumstances imposed on him by the apex court docket.

    Kappan together with three others — Athikur Rehman, Alam and Masood — have been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police on October 5, 2020.

    The Dalit lady had died at a Delhi hospital a fortnight after she was allegedly gang-raped on September 14, 2020. She was cremated in the midst of the evening in her village.

  • Hathras conspiracy case: SC grants bail to journalist Siddique Kappan

    By Online Desk

    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan, arrested in October 2020 whereas on his technique to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh the place a Dalit girl had died after allegedly being gang-raped.

    A bench headed by Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit directed Kappan to stay in Delhi for the following six weeks after the discharge from an Uttar Pradesh jail.

    The bench imposed sure situations on him together with asking him to give up his passport and report back to the police station on each Monday.

    The apex courtroom on final month sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh authorities on the Kerala-based scribe’s bail plea.

    The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court had earlier this month rejected the bail utility of Kappan, who was booked below the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act within the alleged Hathras conspiracy case.

    The FIR had been filed below numerous provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the UAPA towards 4 individuals having alleged hyperlinks with the Popular Front of India (PFI).

    The PFI had been accused prior to now of funding protests towards the Citizenship Amendment Act throughout the nation.

    The police had earlier claimed that the accused was attempting to disturb the legislation and order in Hathras.

    (With PTI Inputs)

    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan, arrested in October 2020 whereas on his technique to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh the place a Dalit girl had died after allegedly being gang-raped.

    A bench headed by Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit directed Kappan to stay in Delhi for the following six weeks after the discharge from an Uttar Pradesh jail.

    The bench imposed sure situations on him together with asking him to give up his passport and report back to the police station on each Monday.

    The apex courtroom on final month sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh authorities on the Kerala-based scribe’s bail plea.

    The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court had earlier this month rejected the bail utility of Kappan, who was booked below the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act within the alleged Hathras conspiracy case.

    The FIR had been filed below numerous provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the UAPA towards 4 individuals having alleged hyperlinks with the Popular Front of India (PFI).

    The PFI had been accused prior to now of funding protests towards the Citizenship Amendment Act throughout the nation.

    The police had earlier claimed that the accused was attempting to disturb the legislation and order in Hathras.

    (With PTI Inputs)

  • UP STF information 5,000-page chargesheet in opposition to journalist Kappan, seven others

    The Uttar Pradesh Police’s Special process Force Saturday filed a virtually 5,000-page chargesheet in opposition to journalist Siddique Kappan and 7 others in a Mathura courtroom, charging them with sedition and conspiring to incite caste violence, amongst others, following the Hathras gangrape and homicide.
    While the state police declare he was a part of a conspiracy to disrupt peace within the space, his attorneys preserve he was going to report on the case involving a 19-year-old Dalit girl. He has been charged underneath IPC sections 124A (sedition), 153A (selling enmity) and 295A (outraging sentiments), the stringent UAPA, and related sections of the IT Act.
    The chargesheet, ready by the Noida wing of UP Special Task Force, was submitted in Mathura Additional District Judge’s Court on Saturday. Besides Kappan, the others named in it are PFI members Atiqur Rahman, Masood Ahmed, Rauf Sharif, Ansad Badruddin and Firoz Khan.
    One Alam, who was driving Kappan on the time, and his relative Mohammad Danish, have additionally been named.
    Danish has obtained interim keep from arrest, whereas the others are in judicial custody.
    “The court took cognizance of the chargesheet which is approximately 5,000 pages long. The documents contain details of our investigation and our findings against the persons who were arrested while on their way to Hathras and others,” mentioned Vinod Sirohi, an STF official.

    Officials mentioned the chargesheet lists greater than 50 witnesses to assist the police expenses. It says the accused needed to trigger regulation and order issues within the area amid the protests over the rape and homicide, it’s learnt.

    The subsequent date of listening to has been fastened for May 1, and the courtroom has issued discover to Danish for look, mentioned district authorities counsel, Mathura, Shivram Singh.
    On October 5, Kappan, journalist together with PFI officers Rahman and Ahmed, and driver Alam had been detained by Mathura Police whereas on their solution to Hathras. A case of sedition had been filed in Mathura in opposition to them.
    While Kappan hails from Kerala and has been residing in Delhi’s Nizamuddin space for years, Rahman is from Muzaffarnagar, Ahmed from Bahraich, and Alam from Rampur.