Atiq-ur-Rehman, a resident of Uttar Pradesh who was arrested along with Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan last year and charged under the U...
Atiq-ur-Rehman, a resident of Uttar Pradesh who was arrested along with Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan last year and charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, has been taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, his family and lawyers told Scroll.in on Wednesday morning. Rehman, 27, has a heart ailment.
Last month, a court had ordered that Rehman will be taken to AIIMS as soon as the funds to shift him come in. Since no action was taken, an urgent plea was moved in the Allahabad High Court on November 18 by Rehman’s uncle Sekhawat.
In October 2020, the Uttar Pradesh Police had arrested Kappan, a freelance journalist, while he was on the way to Hathras district to show solidarity with the family of a Dalit woman who had died after four upper-caste men had allegedly raped her. Kappan was accompanied by Rehman, a member of the Campus Front of India, which calls itself a “neo-social students movement, which aims to empower the campuses by developing a new generation of activists”.
But the Uttar Pradesh Police accused Rehman and Kappan of conspiring to create law and order problems. They have been booked under sections of the UAPA.
Rehman was lodged in a jail in Mathura.
Rehman suffers from a condition called aortic regurgitation. This occurs when your heart’s...
