Dr. Kafeel Khan writes to United Nations against Yogi Adithyanath's UP government
Says govt misusing NSA, UAPA to crush dissent
New Delhi: Dr. Kafeel Khan, who came out of jail recently after the Allahabad High Court quashed the National Security Act (NSA) slapped on him by the UP government, has written a letter to the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) alleging large scale rights 'violations' and 'misuse' of stringent laws to ''suppress the voice of dissent' in India.
Kafeel was arrested in January this year for his alleged ‘inflammatory speech’ delivered at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
In his letter, Kafeel also accused the Yogi Adithyanath government in UP of ‘torturing’ him ‘physically and mentally’ in jail.
''The government has been misusing stringent laws like NSA and UAPA to suppress the voice of dissent...it will greatly affect the poor and marginalized communities in India,'' he said in his letter.
He also said that he was kept 'without food and water' for several days. ''I was treated in an inhuman manner in jail...I was kept in a jail, where there were more prisoners than its capacity,'' he wrote in the letter.
The Gorakhpur-based doctor, who apprehended that he could be arrested again by the UP government and was shifted to the Congress-ruled state of Rajasthan on the 'advice' of party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Kafeel had met Priyanka in Delhi on Sunday, according to the sources in the Congress, triggering speculations that he might soon join the grand old party in the near future.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
