Khan was indicted under the NSA for his alleged incendiary statement at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) by the UP government who was released after seven months in jail.
Best Birthday Present Ever Received, Says Shabista Khan About Her Husband Kafeel Khan’s Release
After being released from jail, Khan thanked the judiciary for a “brilliant” order that had exposed the false, unfounded and fictitious case of the UP government against him. He claimed that he was initially harassed for five days by not receiving food or water.
Khan also thanked the Special Task Force (STF) for “sparing his life” when they brought him to UP from Mumbai after his arrest on January 29. Khan said he would not go to his hometown Gorakhpur because he feared for his life. “I’ll stay away from UP for some time,” he said.
“I am being questioned by the state government to name the real culprit in the deaths of nearly 60 children at the BRD state hospital in Gorakhpur due to oxygen shortage,” Khan said.
“I remain suspended even after no medical malpractice has been proven against me,” he added.
Khan told TOI that he had crossed the UP border safely and was heading to another state, as the government could “eliminate” him. “I will take my family with me and have a good time with them, since I had missed them so much,” he said, adding that they too had suffered a lot.
“My son, Oliver Khan, was only 11 months old when I was housed in Mathura jail. Now he has started saying ‘dad’ like my wife told me. Therefore, I want to feel and live every moment with my children and my family, ”Khan told TOI.
He further said that he would celebrate his wife Shabista Khan’s birthday with his daughter Zabreena’s birthday, which was on August 24.
Recalling the unfortunate day on January 29 when he was arrested by STF at Mumbai airport, Khan said that STF staff severely harassed him for 24 hours by asking him unnecessary questions.
“They accused me of trying to overthrow the state government and had made some kind of gunpowder to kill people, etc.,” said Kafeel, who repeatedly asked such “absurd” questions.
The harassment didn’t end here, it continued in jail as well, Dr. Khan claimed. He added that they did not provide him with food, water, toothpaste until February 3.
“I was not even allowed to speak about the BRD incident in jail,” he said, adding that Mathura’s jailer, Arvind Kumar Pandey, who retired a day before his release, had harassed him a lot.
The conditions inside the jail, which he had also highlighted in his letter, were “pathetic”. “It was a horrible stay. Smelly toilet, crowded prison as 1,600 prisoners were present there against the capacity of 530, ”Khan said, adding that he had spent time writing his book on the oxygen tragedy at the state-run hospital in Gorakhpur and that I had finished a part of it.
He said he now wants to serve people in the flood-affected states by organizing medical camps there. “The flood water increases the risk of communicable diseases like cholera, malaria, dengue, etc. and I want to organize medical camps there to help people,” Khan said, adding that he also wanted to do research work. for Covid-19 drugs, as it had previously. done intensive work for encephalitis. He had written a letter to the Prime Minister in this regard.
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