Paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan was released from a jail in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday midnight after the Allahabad High Court quashe...
Paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan was released from a jail in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday midnight after the Allahabad High Court quashed his detention order under the National Security Act, PTI reported. The court said Khan’s speech at the Aligarh Muslim University during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests did not promote hatred or violence, but was an appeal to national integrity.
“Mathura jail administration informed at around 11 pm that Dr Kafeel will be released, and at around midnight, he was released,” Khan’s lawyer Irfan Ghazi told PTI. On Tuesday, Khan’s family members said they would file a contempt of court plea in the Allahabad High Court if he was not released as per the orders of the court.
Khan’s brother Adeel Khan claimed that the Mathura jail authorities told the family that they would consider the order of the district magistrate, and that Kafeel Khan would be released only when the magistrate permits it.
Dr Khan’s mother Nuzhat Parveen said she will finally be able to “see, touch and feel” her son. “I am very happy that my son is coming out of the jail. I will be able to see him, touch him and feel him after a long time,” she added. “My son is a...
