Zubair will get bail in 2018 tweet case, however stays in jail for different pending instances
By Online Desk
A Delhi court docket on Friday granted bail to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in reference to the 2018 tweet case for which he was arrested on June 27.
The bail was granted on a private bond and surety of Rs 50,000. Zubair won’t be able to go away India with out the permission of the court docket, the decision stated.
However, Zubair will keep in jail over two extra instances filed in Uttar Pradesh.
On Thursday, Zubair had moved the Supreme Court in search of quashing of the six FIRs lodged towards him in a number of districts of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly hurting non secular sentiments, and in addition sought interim bail in all of the instances.
The transfer by the journalist got here whilst a court docket in Hathras in UP remanded Zubair to 14-day judicial custody.
Zubair, who’s in judicial custody in Delhi in a case that’s associated to an alleged objectionable tweet he had posted in 2018 towards a Hindu deity, was dropped at the Hathras court docket from Tihar jail with a Delhi Police escort and brought again after the court docket proceedings.
His lawyer Umang Rawat argued that because the matter is 4 years previous the journalist’s arrest was “malafide” and made beneath “political pressure.”
A Delhi court docket on Friday granted bail to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in reference to the 2018 tweet case for which he was arrested on June 27.
The bail was granted on a private bond and surety of Rs 50,000. Zubair won’t be able to go away India with out the permission of the court docket, the decision stated.
However, Zubair will keep in jail over two extra instances filed in Uttar Pradesh.
On Thursday, Zubair had moved the Supreme Court in search of quashing of the six FIRs lodged towards him in a number of districts of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly hurting non secular sentiments, and in addition sought interim bail in all of the instances.
The transfer by the journalist got here whilst a court docket in Hathras in UP remanded Zubair to 14-day judicial custody.
Zubair, who’s in judicial custody in Delhi in a case that’s associated to an alleged objectionable tweet he had posted in 2018 towards a Hindu deity, was dropped at the Hathras court docket from Tihar jail with a Delhi Police escort and brought again after the court docket proceedings.
His lawyer Umang Rawat argued that because the matter is 4 years previous the journalist’s arrest was “malafide” and made beneath “political pressure.”
