Jailed Kerala Journalist Siddique Kappan Will get five Days’ Bail To Meet Mom
New Delhi:
Siddique Kappan, the Kerala journalist arrested in October on his method to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to document at the alleged gang-rape of a Dalit girl, has been granted bail by way of the Preferrred Courtroom for 5 days, with stipulations, to discuss with his mom.
Throughout the discuss with, he cannot discuss to the media or submit on social media and he can’t meet someone apart from kin, docs and any one attached to his mom’s well being, the Preferrred Courtroom stated.
He’s going to be escorted by way of law enforcement officials and it’ll be the duty of the UP police to organize his trip.
Previous, he was once allowed to talk to his mom by the use of a video name.
Mr Kappan and 3 others were going to Hathras to document at the alleged gang-rape and the large outrage it prompted. They have been arrested following a tip about “suspicious other folks”.
Within the FIR the police carried out a bit of the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, which offers with “elevating price range for a terrorist act”. Mr Kappan has since been lodged on the prison in UP’s Mathura.
The Kerala Union of Operating Reporters has denied those allegations and stated Mr Kappan was once tortured in prison.