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The Supreme Court on Tuesday asks the UP govt to file a medical report of journalist Siddique Kappan

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to document a clinical report of columnist Siddique Kappan and deferred the matter for additional conference till Wednesday.


High Court's three-judge seat, driven by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, was hearing the habeas corpus appeal documented by the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) looking for its nearby heading to move Kappan from Mathura clinic to AIIMS, New Delhi, because of his genuine weakness.


"Let you (the SG, Uttar Pradesh government) record a clinical report of the charged, for the situation," said Justice Ramana, and deferred the matter.


In the mean time, the Uttar Pradesh government denied the case of Kappan's better half that the blamed has been tied to a bunk.


Legal advisor for Kappan, Wills Mathews, said that on April 21, his customer was tried positive for COVID-19 and was taken in this manner to medical clinic.


"He was binded to a bunk, we became more acquainted with this," he said.


"My quick fundamental help is that he will be delivered from the chains," Mathews told the peak court. To this, the SG said, he isn't binded.


The SG said, he will record a testimony for the situation and the matter might be deferred till Wednesday.


Kappan was captured at a cost square close to Hathras, while on his approach to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh in October a year ago, regarding his revealing task to cover the affirmed gangrape and murder of a 19-year-old young lady. A FIR had been enrolled under the UAPA for the situation against Kappan by the Uttar Pradesh Police.

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