I struggled, says Siddique Kappan after coming out of jail

“I struggled,” Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan said minutes after he walked out of jail on Thursday to camera crews, a small curious crowd — and to his wife and teen son, waiting patiently, just as they had for the more than two years since he was imprisoned on his way to Hathras. The relief was writ large on their faces but so was the pain. Kappan and three others were arrested in October 2020 while they were going to the Uttar Pradesh town where a Dalit woman died allegedly after being raped. They were accused of trying to instigate violence over the death of the Hathras woman.

“I am coming to Delhi. I have to stay there for six weeks,” Kappan told

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