A 79-yr-old academic from Lucknow is standing surety for Kappan, when no one else did
Siddique Kappan’s legal team found it hard to get two people to stand as surety in Uttar Pradesh and that was when Roop Rekha Verma, former VC of Lucknow University stepped in. “This is the minimum any citizen can do in dark times,” she told TNM. https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/why-79-year-old-academic-lucknow-decide-stand-surety-kappan-168116
That was when 79-year-old Roop Verma stepped in and said that she is willing to stand as surety for the Kerala journalist, who was arrested while on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to report on the gangrape and murder of a Dalit woman by dominant caste men. According to those who were helping the legal team, it was an arduous task to get two people two stand as surety. A second person has also agreed to stand as surety but the identity is not being revealed considering the sensitivity of the case.