Kafeel Khan's wife seeks security citing the threat to life of husband

Shabista Khan, wife of Dr Kafeel Khan, has written a letter to Uttar Pradesh High Court requesting security for her husband in jail. Dr. Khan was detained for alleged inflammatory comments during the anit-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protest at Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh. He was booked under the National Security Act for the alleged remarks.

She has requested the court to provide him security citing ‘danger’ to his life.

His wife, in a letter, mentioned that “We went to meet him in Mathura jail. He told me that when he was brought to the jail after being arrested, he was not given food for five days straight. The barrack he is staying in is very small and around 100-150 people have been lodged there. His life might be in danger there.”

Dr. Khan was arrested from Mumbai by a Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh police. He made inflammatory remarks on December 12, 2019 during the anti-CAA protest. He was charged under NSA on February 14.