Social activist Sadaf Jafar and ex-IPS officer S R Darapuri were under arrest for last 14 days over protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Lucknow.
A court in Uttar Pradesh granted bail to Congress worker Sadaf Jafar, former IPS officer SR Darapuri, Pawan Rao Ambedkar and many others on Friday. They are in jail after being arrested for protesting against the citizenship law on December 19 in Lucknow.
After the sessions court rejected the bail, it came up for hearing in the district court.
The Hazratganj police had booked Jafar and others under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984 and the Criminal Law (Amendment ) Act, 1932.
A petition was filed in the Allahabad High Court for quashing the FIR against Jafar, calling her arrest as illegal. The high court on Thursday asked the state government to file its reply within two weeks on the petition.
Reacting to Jafar’s arrest, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had lashed out at UP government saying it has “crossed all limits of inhumanity”. “The police have put Sadaf in jail by making baseless allegations,” Gandhi tweeted on Sunday as she reached Jafar’s house to meet her family members.
More than 100 people were arrested after December 19 protests. Prominent human rights lawyer Mohammed Shoaib and ex-policeman SR Darapuri were among those who were arrested for showing anger at a citizenship law they say is unconstitution
Prasanta Patnaik