'I would write to UP CM to reinstate me in the medical service' says Kafeel Khan after release

Days after his release from prison following the Allahabad High Court quashing his detention under National Security Act (NSA), Dr Kafeel Khan Thursday said he would ask Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to reinstate his job in the state medical services. Addressing a press conference in Jaipur, Khan said he was falsely implicated by the UP government and sent to jail as he had exposed the system.

“As the High Court has quashed the charges under the NSA lodged against me, I would write to the Uttar Pradesh chief minister to reinstate me in the medical service,” Dr Kafeel Khan said.

“If I



am not allowed, I will hold medical camps in flood-affected areas of Assam as an activist,” he added.

Khan, a pediatrician, was suspended from Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College after several children died there in 2017, apparently due to the lack of oxygen cylinders. A departmental inquiry later cleared Khan of most of the charges.

He was released from Mathura district jail on Tuesday after the Allahabad High Court ruled his detention under the stringent National Security Act (NSA) was “illegal”. He was arrested on January 29 for allegedly giving a “provocative speech” at Aligarh Muslim University.