“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.

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The bench, headed by Chief Justice Govind Mathur and comprising Justice Saumitra Dayal Singh, was hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by Khan’s mother Nuzhat Parveen, who sought his release on grounds that he had been detained illegally.

Khan was arrested in January for delivering speech at Aligarh Muslim University on December 10, 2019. The NSA charges were invoked against him on February 13,2020, on the orders of Aligarh District Magistrate.

In mid-August, the UP government extended Khan’s detention by another three months.

Under the NSA, people can be detained without a charge for upto 12 months if authorities feel that they are threat to the national security or law and order.

Khan was booked under IPC section 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion).
The FIR registered against him states that his speech threatened to disrupt the harmony between the communities and was also likely to create a law and order situation.

Later, sections 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) and 505(2) (statements creating or promoting enmity, hatred or ill will between classes) of the Indian Penal Code were added to the FIR.

In 2017, Dr Kafeel Khan was blamed for the death of nearly 60 children at the state-run BRD hospital in Gorakhpur due to oxygen shortage, where he worked as a pediatrician.He was charged with medical negligence and dereliction of duty and had spent nine months behind bars at the time.

Though he was later given a clean chit in a departmental probe, the government did not reinstate him.

Then in January 2020, he was arrested in Mumbai for his anti- CAA speech. He has been jailed since then.

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