PTIVaranasi Central Jail authorities on Wednesday refused to release a 14-month-old toddler’s mother, arrested on December 19 over the citizenship amendment protests, saying the court bail order had arrived “seven minutes late”, a relative said. “The jail superintendent told me, ‘You are seven minutes late’. He meant the court release order had reached him seven minutes late and he wouldn’t release Ekta today,” Shashikant said over the phone from Varanasi. “I cited the rule that gives the jail superintendent discretion over such matters, but he wouldn’t listen.”P.K. Trivedi, the jail superintendent, told reporters: “We cannot release someone in the night.

Source: The Telegraph January 01, 2020 22:07 UTC