New Delhi: The hearing on the bail application of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair was completed in a Delhi court on Tuesday. Zubair has been sent into four-days police custody by the court. Zubair was arrested by the Delhi Police in case of hurting religious sentiments in a tweet made in 2018 on Monday.
#WATCH | Delhi: Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair brought to Patiala House Court.
He was earlier sent to 1-day police remand after being arrested last night over allegations of hurting the religious sentiments of a community. pic.twitter.com/i7wlqxQKVr
— ANI (@ANI) June 28, 2022
The case of Zubair is being fought by Senior Advocate Vrinda Grover. He has been produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Snigdha Sarvaria of Delhi’s Patiala House Court.
#Virnda Grover: He is a co-founder Alt News and also works with the company. He does fact check of fake news available on the internet.
#Grover: He enjoys protection from Delhi High Court in 2019. Delhi police said in their status report after the investigation that the tweet was not offensive. That is FIR 194/2020. He was called to join the investigation in that case yesterday.
#Grover: The questioning started at around 5 PM. He signed the notice after the formality was performed. Then Later he was arrested.
#Grover: My client is under attack for his work. He may be challenging the powerful people but that cannot be only reason why he is targeted.
#Grover: My client is being targeted for doing his professional duty of a journalist.
#Grover: I request to please allow me to play the scene so that there is no in the minds of the court. I am not the only one who is opposing remand but I will also be seeeking bail thereafter at the appropriate juncture.
#Prosecutor: ye ajkal trend ban gaya hai ki famous hone ke lie religious outrage jo karte hain, religious feelings apne tweet se…isme 4 aur post hia jisme ye mahabahrat me edit karke dikha rahe hai…
#Prosecutor: inke mobile se sari applications deleted kr di gai hai, ye blank phone lekar aaye the
#Grover: I was in a different case. This is not the similar case. In each I am given a protection. Please provide verification when you are making such serious allegations.
#Prosecutor: He is just informer. He did not hide his details. His details are here. It is not possible to get a Twitter account without giving details. We need to recover laptops and gadgets form which it was posted. This is way police remand is required.
#Court reserved its order which will be pronounced after 20 minutes.
#Delhi Court send Mohammed Zubair to four days police custody.
