UP’s Dr Kafeel Khan arrested at Mumbai airport for alleged anti-CAA speeches

Mumbai, January 30

The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has arrested Dr Kafeel Khan from Mumbai airport for allegedly making inflammatory statements at AMU during protests against the Citizenship Amendments Act (CAA) last month, officials said.

Khan was arrested on Wednesday night with assistance from the Mumbai police at the airport when he arrived in the city to attend anti-CAA protests, an official said.

“Officials of the UP STF arrested Dr Kafeel Khan in a case which was registered at Civil Lines Police Station under Section 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups) of the IPC. Our police team helped our UP counterparts on their request,” said an official from the Mumbai police.

He claimed that Khan had made inflammatory statements on December 12 last year during the protest near Bab-e-Syed Gate outside the Aligarh Muslim University in front of more than 600 students.

The official also alleged that the Gorakhpur doctor had made objectionable comments against Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

The FIR against Khan mentions that Swaraj India’s president Yogendra Yadav was also present during the speech at the AMU.

Following the arrest, Khan was taken to the Sahar Police Station and after completing formalities he would be taken to UP on transit remand, the official said.

Khan, a paediatrician, had come to the limelight in 2017 when a controversy broke out after the death of over 60 children in less than a week at the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur, UP. PTI

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