UP STF information 5,000-page chargesheet in opposition to journalist Kappan, seven others

The Uttar Pradesh Police’s Special process Force Saturday filed a virtually 5,000-page chargesheet in opposition to journalist Siddique Kappan and 7 others in a Mathura courtroom, charging them with sedition and conspiring to incite caste violence, amongst others, following the Hathras gangrape and homicide.
While the state police declare he was a part of a conspiracy to disrupt peace within the space, his attorneys preserve he was going to report on the case involving a 19-year-old Dalit girl. He has been charged underneath IPC sections 124A (sedition), 153A (selling enmity) and 295A (outraging sentiments), the stringent UAPA, and related sections of the IT Act.
The chargesheet, ready by the Noida wing of UP Special Task Force, was submitted in Mathura Additional District Judge’s Court on Saturday. Besides Kappan, the others named in it are PFI members Atiqur Rahman, Masood Ahmed, Rauf Sharif, Ansad Badruddin and Firoz Khan.
One Alam, who was driving Kappan on the time, and his relative Mohammad Danish, have additionally been named.
Danish has obtained interim keep from arrest, whereas the others are in judicial custody.
“The court took cognizance of the chargesheet which is approximately 5,000 pages long. The documents contain details of our investigation and our findings against the persons who were arrested while on their way to Hathras and others,” mentioned Vinod Sirohi, an STF official.

Officials mentioned the chargesheet lists greater than 50 witnesses to assist the police expenses. It says the accused needed to trigger regulation and order issues within the area amid the protests over the rape and homicide, it’s learnt.

The subsequent date of listening to has been fastened for May 1, and the courtroom has issued discover to Danish for look, mentioned district authorities counsel, Mathura, Shivram Singh.
On October 5, Kappan, journalist together with PFI officers Rahman and Ahmed, and driver Alam had been detained by Mathura Police whereas on their solution to Hathras. A case of sedition had been filed in Mathura in opposition to them.
While Kappan hails from Kerala and has been residing in Delhi’s Nizamuddin space for years, Rahman is from Muzaffarnagar, Ahmed from Bahraich, and Alam from Rampur.