Kafeel Khan free after Allahabad HC scraps NSA arrest, upholds his speech

Written by Manish Sahu
| Lucknow |

Updated: September 2, 2020 5:06:41 am





Khan was released from Mathura jail late Tuesday.

RULING THAT his address to students at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) during the anti-CAA protests last December was “a call for national integrity and unity”, and not “any effort to promote hatred or violence”, the Allahabad High Court Tuesday set aside the detention of Dr Kafeel Khan under the National Security Act (NSA) and ordered the UP government to release him “forthwith”.

Khan, a pediatrician at Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College and Hospital who had been placed under suspension, was arrested on January 29 for allegedly making the “provocative speech” and…

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