UP: Wife fears threat to Kafeel Khan’s life in jail, demands security

GORAKHPUR: Shabista Khan, wife of suspended paediatrician

Dr Kafeel Khan

, has written to chief justice of the Allahabad HC and senior government authorities demanding security for her husband who is lodged in Mathura jail for allegedly delivering provocative speech during anti-CAA protest at AMU.


“My husband is being mentally tortured in jail and is being subjected to inhuman behaviour,” Shabista alleged in a letter to the chief justice of Allahabad HC, additional chief secretary (home) and director general (jail), among others. Shabista said she feared an attempt could be made on her husband’s life in jail and demanded adequate security for him.

She demanded that her husband should be kept away from active criminals and lodged with common prisoners.

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