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Arrest of Kerala Journalist, 3 Others: Case Transferred to Additional District and Sessions Judge

The Additional District and Sessions Judge-I of Mathura will now hear the case involving Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan and three others, with a court here holding that the Chief Judicial Magistrate was not competent to hear the matter and order remand of the accused. to the court of the Additional District and Sessions Judge-I immediately,” according to an order passed by District and Sessions Judge Yashavant Kumar Mishra earlier this week. Mishra said that further hearing in the case would continue in the court of the Additional District and Sessions Judge-I. The order was delivered on an application by Rakesh Kumar Paliwal, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Gautam Buddha Nagar, seeking transfer of the case to a sessions judge.

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