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 2:07 PM IST

      Court starts pronouncing the order

    • 20 July 2022 2:06 PM IST

      Bench assembled

    • 20 July 2022 2:03 PM IST

      Supreme Court to pronounce order now

    • 20 July 2022 12:56 PM IST

      UP AAG : There is no conscious viciousness against the petitioner. The only intention is to prevent communal disharmony. In past two years, his following increased from 2.5 lakhs to five point som

    • 20 July 2022 12:55 PM IST

      AAG : We are a society where different communities live. We should not promote hate. The state has to prevent communal disharmony.

      UP AAG : SIT was formed looking at the gravity so that local police stations do not callously apply the sections. Section 67 IT Act was removed in Sitapur FIR. SIT realized the section won't apply. SIT is headed by a competent officer of IG rank.

    • 20 July 2022 12:54 PM IST

      AAG : We are a society where different communities live. We should not promote hate. State has to prevent communal disharmony.

    • 20 July 2022 12:53 PM IST

      AAG : This Court has said while granting interim bail that he will not post any tweets.

    • 20 July 2022 12:53 PM IST

      AAG : It is not as if some general tweet is there and general action is being taken. 

    • 20 July 2022 12:52 PM IST

      AAG : One of the person accused of violence has given a statement that the tweets of Zubair were circulated.

      The State has to take a priority that communal harmony is maintained.

    • 20 July 2022 12:52 PM IST

      AAG : Subsequent to the tweets on TV Debates, there are tweets of June 6..and the printouts of these tweets were circulated soon after the people came out of prayers.

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