The Allahabad High Court issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh Government on the bail petition of Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan in connection with the case registered against him under Sedition charges and the UAPA, which was pending before the NIA Court in Lucknow.
According to the joint statement by EGI President Seema Mustafa and others, the Editors Guild of India is deeply disturbed by the reports of inhuman treatment being meted out to journalist Siddique Kappan.
The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail for five days to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan on an application filed by the Kerala Union Working Journalists seeking his release to meet his ailing 90-year-old bed-ridden mother
New Delhi (ILNS): The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on Friday a petition for an interim bail for Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police, while he was in Hathras to visit the victims of the tragedy and cover the case.