Paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan has written to the United Nations’ experts, alleging that he was tortured in Mathura jail during his incarceration after he was accused of delivering instigating speech.
“I was tortured mentally as well as physically, denied food and water for many days, and treated inhumanely during months of incarceration in a congested, overcrowded Mathura prison,” he wrote in a letter dated September 17. The doctor referred to the experts’ June 26 letter, in which they had urged the Indian authorities to release him.
On September 1, the Allahabad High Court revoked the charges under the National Security Act against Khan, and asked the state government to release him immediately. The doctor was in custody since January 29 for making allegedly inflammatory remarks during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act at the Aligarh Muslim University…