{"id":325926,"date":"2020-09-01T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T08:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325926"},"modified":"2020-09-01T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T08:15:10","slug":"allahabad-high-court-drops-nsa-charges-against-dr-kafeel-khan-orders-immediate-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/allahabad-high-court-drops-nsa-charges-against-dr-kafeel-khan-orders-immediate-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Allahabad High Court drops NSA charges against Dr. Kafeel Khan, orders immediate release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/dr-kafeel-khan-arrested-in-mumbai-over-inflammatory-remarks-against-caa-in-aligarh\/kafeel\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-319511\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-319511 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kafeel-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/kafeel-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/kafeel.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/a>Allahabad High Court on Tuesday dropped the National Security Act (NSA) charges against Dr. Kafeel Khan over his alleged anti-CAA speech at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in December 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Hearing a petition filed by Dr. Kafeel&#8217;s mother, Allahabad HC revoked the NSA charges and directed the government to immediately release him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In January, Dr. Kafeel was arrested from Mumbai by the UP special task force and was brought to Aligarh and later was shifted to a jail in Mathura. Dr. Kafeel was booked for promoting enmity between different religions while participating in the anti-CAA protest at AMU.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court on Tuesday dropped the National Security Act (NSA) charges against Dr. Kafeel Khan over his alleged anti-CAA speech at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in December 2019. Hearing a petition filed by Dr. Kafeel&#8217;s mother, Allahabad HC revoked the NSA charges and directed the government to immediately release him. In January, Dr. Kafeel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":319511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[2248,12525,2567],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325927,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325926\/revisions\/325927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}