It may be recalled that on 26 June, the UN body had written to the Indian government, mentioning 11 cases, among those that of Kafeel Khan and Sharjeel Imam, for “serious allegations of human rights violations, several relating to due process failings during arrest and detention, as well as allegations of torture and ill-treatment.”
Describing his days in jail, Khan wrote, “I was tortured mentally and physically and also denied food and water for many days and treated inhumanely during my 7 months of incarceration in a congested, overcrowded Mathura prison. Fortunately, I got the NSA and all 3 extensions of detention quashed by the high court, which called the whole process illegal.”
The high court categorically stated in its 25 April 2018 order that there was “no evidence of medical negligence found against him and he was not even involved in the oxygen tendering process.”
Khan has…