Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan was released from a Lucknow jail on 2 February 2023 after two years of incarceration. His release order was signed more than a month after he secured bail, as per reports.
He secured bail from the Allahabad High Court in an alleged money laundering case on 23 December 2022. The Supreme Court had granted him bail on 9 September 2022 in a UAPA case.
Kappan was arrested in October 2020 while on his way to cover the alleged gangrape and murder of a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras. Police had reportedly accused him and 3 others of being members of the Popular Front of India (PFI), and planning to disturb law and order in the area.
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