Mohammed Zubair's Plea against UP Police FIRs-Supreme Court Hearing-LIVE UPDATES

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20 July 2022 12:03 PM IST

  • Mohammed Zubairs Plea against UP Police FIRs-Supreme Court Hearing-LIVE UPDATES

    Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud will hear a petition filed by Alt News Journalist Mohammed Zubair seeking to quash the FIRs registered against him by the UP Police. On July 18, Top Court had directed the Uttar Pradesh Police to not take any precipitative action against fact checker Mohammed Zubair in connection with the 5 FIRs registered against him in Lakhimpur...

    Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud will hear a petition filed by Alt News Journalist Mohammed Zubair seeking to quash the FIRs registered against him by the UP Police. 

    On July 18, Top Court had directed the Uttar Pradesh Police to not take any precipitative action against fact checker Mohammed Zubair in connection with the 5 FIRs registered against him in Lakhimpur Kheri, Muzaffarnagar, Ghaziabad and two at Hathras districts over his tweets till July 20.

    The Court had on July 8, 2022, granted Zubair interim bail in the Sitapur FIR, and on July 13, a bench led by Justice DY Chandrachud extended the interim bail in the Sitapur case until further orders and posted his plea to quash the FIR for disposal in September. On July 15, the Patiala House Court granted him regular bail in the Delhi Police FIR.

    FIRs were registered against him by the UP Police for a tweet in which he allegedly called 3 Hindu seers- Yati Narasinghanand Saraswati, Bajrang Muni and Anand Swaroop as 'Hate mongers'.

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    • 20 July 2022 2:27 PM IST

      Order : restraining further arrest in any other FIR. The petition was mentioned before this court for urgent orders on 18.07.2022. While entertainig the petition on July 18, this court directed no precipitate steps be taken against the petitioner on the basis of 6 FIRs.

    • 20 July 2022 2:26 PM IST

      Order : by UP DGP for investigating 6 FIRs registered against the petitioner. Apart from the prayer for quashing the FIRs or in the alternative the clubbing the FIRs, the petitioner seeks release on bail in all the FIRs which are set out above and protective order of this court

    • 20 July 2022 2:26 PM IST

      Order : In the alternative, the petitioner seeks a direction that the 6 FIRs be clubbed with FIR under investigation of Delhi Police Special Cell. At this stage it is material to note that a memorandum has been issued on 10.07.2022 in terms of which a SIT has been formed

    • 20 July 2022 2:26 PM IST

      Order : details of contributions and undertaking on source of funds). These proceedings are instituted under Art 32. The relief which has been sought primarily is for the quashing of 6 FIRs namely...

    • 20 July 2022 2:25 PM IST

      Order : In the alternative, the petitioner seeks a direction that the 6 FIRs be clubbed with FIR under investigation of Delhi Police Special Cell. At this stage it is material to note that a memorandum has been issued on 10.07.2022 in terms of which a SIT has been formed

    • 20 July 2022 2:24 PM IST

      Order : details of contributions and undertaking on source of funds). These proceedings are instituted under Art 32. The relief which has been sought primarily is for the quashing of 6 FIRs namely...

    • 20 July 2022 2:24 PM IST

      Order :..the petitioner was served with notices under Sec 41A CrPC or as the case may be under Sec 91 CrPC for the production of documents such as (balance sheet of the last 3 yrs, income tax returns of director and co-founder, details of payment of corporate tax, PAN Cards.

    • 20 July 2022 2:22 PM IST

      Order : In FIR at Hathras Kotwali, petitioner has been remanded to 14 day judicial custody on 13 July. On 15 July, application seeking police custody has been filed. In the meantime, arising out of the investigation of the FIRs registered at diverse police stations in UP,

    • 20 July 2022 2:21 PM IST

      Order : In FIR at Khairabad, petitioner was remanded to judicial custody by JMFC Sitapur...By an order of this court dated 08.07.2022, petitioner was granted interim bail. The order of interim bail has been extended on 12.07.2022 pending further orders.

    • 20 July 2022 2:20 PM IST

      Order : In FIR 199/201 at PS Chatwal, petitioner has been granted bail on 30.06.2021 by the judicial magistrate. In respect of FIR 511/2021 at PS Mohammadi, petitioner was remanded on 11.06.2022 for 14 day of judicial custody.

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