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A 79-yr-old academic from Lucknow is standing surety for Kappan, when no one else did
Siddique Kappan’s legal team found it hard to get two people to stand as surety in Uttar Pradesh and that was when Roop Rekha Verma, former VC of Lucknow University stepped in. “This is the minimum any citizen can do in dark times,” she told TNM. https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/why-79-year-old-academic-lucknow-decide-stand-surety-kappan-168116

That was when 79-year-old Roop Verma stepped in and said that she is willing to stand as surety for the Kerala journalist, who was arrested while on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to report on the gangrape and murder of a Dalit woman by dominant caste men. According to those who were helping the legal team, it was an arduous task to get two people two stand as surety. A second person has also agreed to stand as surety but the identity is not being revealed considering the sensitivity of the case.

Prime Time With Ravish Kumar | Siddique Kappan को मिली जमानत कहीं से भी राहत की खबर नहीं है https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6lF72hnUKc  Sep 9, 2022 Prime Time With Ravish Kumar - September 9 , 2022: सुप्रीम कोर्ट (Supreme Court) ने केरल (Kerala) के पत्रकार सिद्दिक कप्पन (Siddique Kappan) को शर्तों के साथ ज़मानत देने का फैसला किया है. चीफ जस्टिस यूयू ललित (Justice UU Lalit), जस्टिस S रवींद्र भट्ट (Justice Ravindra Bhat) और जस्टिस पी एस नरसिम्हा (Justice P. S. Narasimha) की बेंच में आज कप्पन की ज़मानत को लेकर सुनवाई हो रही थी. आज भी कपिल सिब्बल (Kapil Sibal) ने वकील होने की भूमिका निभाई है, तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ (Teesta Setalvad) के ज़मानत के मामले भी कपिल सिब्बल ने बहस की थी. सिद्दिक कप्पन 5 अक्तूबर 2020 में गिरफ्तार किए गए थे जब यूपी के हाथरस में अनुसूचित जाति की एक पीड़िता की बलात्कार के बाद हत्या कर दी गई थी.

https://thewire.in/law/supreme-court-grants-bail-to-siddique-kappan

https://youtu.be/R6lF72hnUKc?t=1121 On Journalist being put in Jail. will the officials or persons responsibile for false cases be held accountable? .  https://www.youtube.com/enbed/start=1121&end=1425 

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