‘Objectionable tweet’: Delhi court docket prone to hear Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair’s bail plea on Tuesday
By PTI
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court docket is prone to hear on Tuesday Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair’s plea looking for bail in a case associated to an “objectionable tweet” he had posted in 2018 towards a Hindu deity.
Additional Sessions Judge Devender Kumar Jangala will hear Zubair’s utility filed on Monday towards the order of a magisterial court docket which on July 2 dismissed his bail plea and despatched him to 14-day judicial custody (JC) within the case.
The magisterial court docket had cited the character and gravity of the offences towards Zubair and noticed that the matter was on the preliminary stage of the investigation.
The court docket had despatched him to JC after his five-day custodial interrogation.
In its order, the court docket had famous the submission of the general public prosecutor that the investigation was on the preliminary stage and that there was each probability that police custody (PC) remand of the accused can be required.
The decide additionally thought of the addition of recent sections through the course of the investigation whereas rejecting the bail utility.
“As regards the plea that the alleged tweet of the accused for which accused has been arrested is of the year 2018 and part of Hindi movie ‘Kissi Se Na Kehna’ and so offences under sections 153A (Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc.) and 295A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) IPC are not made out, are of no assistance to the accused as Section 35 (Punishment for contravention of any provision of the) FC(R) Act have also been added and investigation qua it is also pending,” the court docket had stated.
Even in any other case, at this stage, because the matter is on the preliminary stage of the investigation, this court docket shall not go any orders as to what sections are being made out and what sections are usually not being made out, the decide had added.
