AGRA:
Journalist Siddique Kappan
remained incarcerated in
Mathura
prison on Thursday, over 24 hours after the
Supreme Court directed the Uttar Pradesh government to shift him to a Delhi hospital for treatment “at the earliest”.
Mathura jail authorities said on Thursday evening that they have "received no instructions from the state government on the transfer of the inmate".
Kappan was moved back to the Mathura jail on Tuesday from a local hospital, a day before the apex court had directed the UP government to take him to Delhi for treatment after his medical reports revealed that he had multiple health issues like diabetes, heart ailment, blood pressure, and bodily injury, apart from testing positive for Covid-19.
SSP, Mathura district jail, Shailendra Maitrey, confirmed to TOI that Kappan had gone back to the prison "after he tested negative for Covid-19 on Tuesday".
Kappan and three others were arrested on October 4 last year when they were going to
Hathras
in UP from Delhi to report the alleged gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit girl by upper caste youths.