Uttar Pradesh (The Stellar News): Assistant prosecution officer KP Singh stated that the session court of Lakhimpur Kheri rejected the bail plea of the Co-founder of Alt News Mohammad Zubair in a tweet case of 2018. He was summoned by a Lakhimpur Kheri court in a case registered against him in September 18, 2021 after a complaint was filed by a journalist of a news channel for a fact-check tweet. The court sent him to a judicial custody for 14 days on Monday. In another development, the Hathras Police has moved an application in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate seeking Zubair’s remand. A bail hearing in the case was postponed till Saturday which was scheduled to be happened on July 13 adter the plaintiff raised an objection against the application from Zubair’s end that was filed in English.
On Friday, a Delhi court granted him bail in a case related to an allegedly objectionable tweet observing that ‘the voice of dissent’ is necessary for a healthy democracy’. The FIR in this case was lodged on June 20 on the grounds of the complaint filed by the Duty Officer of the IFSO Unit of the Delhi Police Special Cell which tackles cyber crimes. Zubair was first arrested on June 21 and sent him into police custody after an FIR was registered against him based on a twitter posting which another Twitter handle alleged that it ‘hurt Hindu sentiments’.
Report: Deepanjot Kaur (Under Training)
Source: The information regarding the above mentioned news report is from the site ‘The Indian Express’, article published on July 16, 2022.
