Plea To Interrogate Kerala Journalist Siddique Kappan Again Dismissed

Additional District and Sessions Judge Anil Kumar Pandey rejected the Special Task Force plea, saying that the accused cannot be allowed to be interrogated again after the chargesheet in the case has already been filed.

A Mathura court has dismissed the UP STF's plea to interrogate alleged PFI activist-cum-Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, facing terror charges, about some incriminating document found in his Delhi residence. Additional District and Sessions Judge Anil Kumar Pandey rejected the Special Task Force plea, saying that the accused cannot be allowed to be interrogated again after the chargesheet in the case has already been filed. Mr Kappan is presently lodged in judicial custody in a terror case, involving instigating unrest and funding it after the death of a Hathras woman, set ablaze after her rape and brutalisation. "The prosecution's request at a stage when the charge-sheet has already been submitted in the court cannot be accepted and merits rejection," ADSJ Pandey said in his order on Monday.