Assured of stay by Priyanka Gandhi, Kafeel Khan arrives Rajasthan

Dr Kafeel Khan, who stepped out of the Mathura jail late on September 1 following the revocation of the charges under the National Security Act (NSA) against him, landed in Jaipur on September 4 and claimed that Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi assured him of safe stay in Rajasthan. The suspended Uttar Pradesh doctor said his family feared that the Yogi government could frame him in another case and put him in prison again.

“We were assured of a safe stay in Jaipur by Priyankaji, who spoke to my mother and wife and said that the UP government may slap other charges against me. We feel safe here in Rajasthan,” Dr Khan said during a press conference in Jaipur.

Dr Khan was released after the Allahabad high court set aside the charges pressed against him for a speech on Citizenship Amendment Act in Aligarh Muslim University in January this year. He was arrested on January 29.
The paediatrician from the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur said he would appeal to UP chief minister Yogi

Adityanath to revoke his suspension. “I shall write to UP CM urging him to revoke my suspension and give my service back so that I can work as a corona warrior. I want to volunteer in the vaccine research programme,” he said. Khan added that he will knock at the high court’s doors again if the suspension wasn’t revoked.

Recalling the death of 70 kids at the BRD Medical College due to shortage of liquid oxygen, Khan said it happened because the state government had faltered on payment and people in Luknow were demanding a cut to release payment of 78 lakh.

Dr Kafeel Khan was, in February, booked under the stringent National Security (NSA) over his alleged anti- CAA speech at Aligarh Muslim University on December 2019.

In 2017, he was arrested for his alleged role in the death of children in BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur, UP. About two years later, a state government probe cleared Khan of all major charges, prompting him to seek an apology from the Yogi Adityanath government.