Dr. Kafeel Khan arrested in Mumbai over inflammatory remarks against CAA

New Delhi, 30 Jan 2020 [Fik/News Sources]: The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday night arrested Dr. Kafeel Khan in Mumbai.

STF Inspector General Amitabh Yash said Khan was wanted in a case registered in Aligarh for his allegedly inflammatory remarks made at a protest rally against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Khan was scheduled to be at the Mumbai Bagh protests on Thursday. In the same mould as Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, women protesters have started an indefinite stir against the CAA at Mumbai Bagh, with the agitation entering the third day on Wednesday.

India has been witnessing protests ever since the contentious legislation was passed by Parliament last month and came into effect earlier in January.

Kafeel Khan, a paediatrician, hit the headlines after the death of 60 children in the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College in Gorakhpur in August 2017 due to disruption in oxygen supply over unpaid bills.

He was removed from his post at the state-run BRD hospital after 40 kids died in two days. Khan was the nodal officer of the 100-bed AES ward at the state-run hospital and was removed following the deaths on August 10 and 11.

But last year an Uttar Pradesh government inquiry gave a clean chit to Khan.