: Hathras case: SC issues notice to UP government over arrest of Kerala journalist, no bail yet #IndiaNEWS The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh government and the state police

Hathras case: SC issues notice to UP government over arrest of Kerala journalist, no bail yet #IndiaNEWS
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh government and the state police on a plea challenging the detention of Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan, who was booked and arrested on his way to a village in Hathras last month, Live Law reported. A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian was hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by the Kerala Union of Working Journalists challenging Kappan’s custody. During the last hearing on October 12, the court said it would hear a plea after four weeks and that the petitioner could approach the Allahabad High Court in the interim.Kappan along with three others was illegally detained on October 5 while he was travelling to meet the family of the 19-year-old Dalit woman from Hathras who was gangraped by four Thakur men. A day later, the four of them were booked under sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and other provisions of the Indian Penal Code, including sedition. The Uttar Pradesh Police alleged that the four men are linked to the Popular Front of India, a Kerala-based organisation that the state government has sought to be banned for its alleged involvement in the violence during the protests against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act. The...Read more

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