This story is from February 15, 2020

Anti-CAA speech: NSA slapped on Dr Kafeel Khan

The Uttar Pradesh police late on Thursday night slapped the stringent National Security Act (NSA) on Gorakhpur paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan, hours before he was expected to walk free from Mathura jail , four days after he was granted bail by Aligarh chief judicial magistrate.
Anti-CAA speech: NSA slapped on Dr Kafeel Khan
Dr Kafeel Khan
AGRA: The Uttar Pradesh police late on Thursday night slapped the stringent National Security Act (NSA) on Gorakhpur paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan, hours before he was expected to walk free from Mathura jail , four days after he was granted bail by Aligarh chief judicial magistrate.
Aligarh district magistrate CB Singh said, "Protests had continued in the city and AMU for days after Khan delivered an inflammatory speech on the university campus.
In fact, students turned violent on the campus on December 15".
Deputy inspector general (Aligarh) Akash Kulhary told TOI that the NSA allows preventive detention for months if the authorities feel that the person is a threat to the national security or law and order.
Dr Khan was booked by Aligarh police on December 13 for delivering a provocative speech in Aligarh Muslim University during an anti-CAA protest on the campus a day earlier and was arrested from Mumbai airport on January 29 by UP Police's special task force.
Court granted bail to Kafeel on Feb 10
He was remanded to judicial custody for 14 days on January 30.
Khan had been lodged in Mathura jail despite bail granted being to him by the CJM’s court on February 10.
Khan’s younger brother, Kashif Jameel, who visited Mathura jail on Friday hoping to take his brother back home, told TOI that he was very disappointed with the government’s decision of slapping National Secuirty Act on his brother.

“My brother is unnecessarily being harassed by the government because of his surname ‘Khan’. Many political leaders, including those from BJP, had given several inflammatory speeches, but none of them were harassed like my brother. They are trying to suppress his voice as he stands with others, demanding justice for the victims,” he said.
On Friday, Khan’s wife Shabistan Khan also reached Mathura jail to meet her husband but she started feeling unwell after she came to know about the NSA charges against him.
Khan’s lawyer Irfan Ghazi said they will soon challenge the NSA in a higher court. “The state government doesn’t want him to get out of the jail. That’s why his release was delayed by the jail authorities even after he was granted bail,” he said.
Claiming a threat to his life in jail, Ghazi said that Khan has been isolated from other prison inmates and is not getting his medicines.
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