The Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh Police on Saturday filed a chargesheet against Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan and sev...
The Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh Police on Saturday filed a chargesheet against Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan and seven others, accusing them of sedition and conspiring to incite caste violence in Hathras district last year, The Indian Express reported.
The chargesheet was filed in a court in Mathura. Besides Kappan, it named Popular Front of India members Atiqur Rahman, Masood Ahmed, Rauf Sharif, Ansad Badruddin, Firoz Khan, Alam and Danish.
“The court took cognisance of the chargesheet which is approximately 5,000 pages long,” Special Task Force official Vinod Sirohi told the newspaper. “The documents contain details of our investigation and our findings against the persons who were arrested while on their way to Hathras and others.”
Kappan, a journalist for the Malayalam news portal Azhimukham, was arrested in October while he was on his way to cover what has come to be known as the Hathras case, in which a 19-year-old Dalit woman had died on September 14 after four upper caste man gangraped her. The Uttar Pradesh Police later booked him under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and charges of sedition.
Three other men who were in the car with him were also arrested for similar offences.
The police claim that Kappan was arrested because he was going to Hathras as part of...
