Kappan was arrested in October 2020 in Uttar Pradesh state, where a youthful Dalit woman had died after she was allegedly ravished by four upper- estate men. The case had sparked protesters in India. Police indicted Mr Kappan of conspiring to produce law and order trouble and incite violence, which he denied. Three men who were in the auto with him that day were indicted of analogous offences.
Mr Kappan, who had two cases against him, was given bail in one by India’s Supreme Court in September. The Allahabad high court granted him bail in the alternate case in December. But it took further than a month after that for him to be released due to procedural detainments. A month after the Allahabad High Court granted bail to Kerala intelligence Journalist Siddique Kappan, a sessions court in Lucknow Wednesday signed orders to release him on bail, Live Law reported. Kappan is likely to walk out of jail by Thursday. Further than two times after he was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police while heading to the Hathras home of a youthful Dalit woman who died after an alleged gangrape, Kappan was granted bail on December 24, 2022 by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court in a plutocrat laundering case filed by the Enforcement Directorate. Three months ago, when the Supreme Court gave him bail in the terror case, Opposition parties and intelligence groups ate the order.
They purport that Mr Kappan was made a “soft target” by UP’s BJP government for being a Muslim. Mr Kappan and three of the co-accused — Atikur Rehman, Mohammad Alam and Masud Ahmad — were arrested by the UP police in Mathura in October 2020 while on the way to Hathras. It was days after a Dalit woman there failed after she was allegedly gang- ravished. She was cremated in the middle of the night in her villa by the quarter administration, sparking demurrers and wide combination of Yogi Adityanath’s BJP government.
