A Lucknow sessions court today rejected journalist Siddique Kappan’s bail plea in a case filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The hearing had concluded earlier this month and district judge Sanjay Shankar Pandey had reserved verdict on October 12.
Kappan will now continue to remain in jail.
The Enforcement Directorate had filed the case against Kappan and others in February 2021. Although Kappan was granted bail by the Supreme Court in September in the UAPA case against him, he was not released since he was yet to get bail in the PMLA case.
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