Sitapur police will get six-day custodial remand of Zubair in pending FIR

Express News Service

LUCKNOW: Sitapur police obtained six-day custodial remand of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair who was produced earlier than a neighborhood courtroom in Sitapur on Thursday for a listening to in reference to a case lodged in opposition to him for hurting the non secular sentiments of a group.

As per the Sitapur police, the FIR was lodged in opposition to the Alt News co-founder on the idea of a criticism submitted by one Bhagwan Sharan on May 27 claiming that the journalist had harm the emotions of a group by tweeting in opposition to Mahant Bajrang Muni, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati and Swami Anand Swaroop.

Zubair, who had been arrested by the Delhi police on June 28, and thereafter was handed over to Sitapur police on July 4. The journalist was produced in Sitapur district courtroom which despatched him to 14 days of judicial remand. Since Zubair was lodged in Tihar jail, he was despatched again to Delhi.

According to Sitapur police circle officer Piyush Kumar Singh, they sought Zubair’s remand for questioning and gathering proof. “As per the court order, the remand period will commence from Friday at 10 am,” he stated.

UP police had filed a cost sheet in opposition to Zubair within the case registered at Khairabad police station in Sitapur. “A production warrant was issued by the Sitapur local court after the charge sheet was filed against Zubair, who was booked under the charges of hurting religious sentiments and under sections of the Information Technology Act,” he added.