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By Muhammad Raafi / TwoCircles.net
NEW DELHI — Atiq-ur-Rehman, a student leader of the Campus Front of India who was arrested along with Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan in October 2020 and charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, has been admitted to a local hospital in Lucknow after his health deteriorated in jail.
In November last year, Rehman was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) for open heart surgery.
Rehman, 28, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, was a regular visitor to the AIMS since 2007 for his chronic heart condition diagnosed when he was a teenager. Rehman suffers from a heart ailment called aortic regurgitation. This occurs when the heart’s aortic valve does not close tightly. The most serious complication of this would be heart failure.
Sanjida, wife of Rehman told TwoCircles.net that his condition worsened in jail on Tuesday following which he was shifted to King George Medical College in Lucknow. “He does not recognise people and struggles to recall things,” Sanjida said after meeting Rehman at the hospital.
Nine months after the surgery was conducted on Rehman, his health deteriorated again in Lucknow district jail, Sakhawat, father-in-law of Rehman said. Sakhawat also met Rehman at King George Medical College Lucknow.
“He has been admitted to the hospital and his right side is paralysed,” Sakhawat said.
Rehman, a research scholar in library sciences at Choudhary Charan Singh University in Meerut, accompanied Kappan, Masood Ahmed, a master’s student at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia and CFI office-bearer and taxi driver Muhammad Alam, on their way to express solidarity with the family of a Dalit woman in Hathras who had died after four upper-caste men had allegedly raped and murdered her.
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