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

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20 July 2022 6:33 AM GMT

  • 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 6:54 AM GMT

      Grover refers to Jagisha Arora case (where relese of journalist Prashant Kanojia was ordered).

    • 20 July 2022 6:53 AM GMT

      Grover refers to Jagisha Arora and Monica Agarwal cases where relief under Article 142 was granted.

    • 20 July 2022 6:53 AM GMT

      Grover : If I am going to be put through this, I may not survive. And I don't have resources. It is getting incresingly difficult for me to get a counsel to represent in these cases. I say this with full responsibiliy.

    • 20 July 2022 6:53 AM GMT

      Grover : Why I am saying this is an orchestrated investigation? 14 days remand is sought for omnibus investigation. 91 notices issued to AltNews asking for our entire records, accounts by three police stations. Scope of investigation is no longer the same.

    • 20 July 2022 6:49 AM GMT

      Grover : There are direct threats against him. There is a bounty announced for his head. He is lodged in Tihar jail and he is taken back and forth. 

    • 20 July 2022 6:48 AM GMT

      Grover : What kind of police remand application is this? They will take me into custody and take me to wherever they want to investigate tweets from 2014 to take into custody of all devices. Is this not a statutory abuse of the power of investigation?

    • 20 July 2022 6:47 AM GMT

      Grover : The issue of funding is under the scrutiny of Delhi police FIR. I have been granted bail. Razorpay CEO has made a statement that only domestic payments are activated for AltNews.

    • 20 July 2022 6:46 AM GMT

      Grover : My devices unconnected with the tweets are in their custody. They say they have to recover an Apple Imac from Altnews office in Ahmedabad. Look at the way the scope is expanded.

    • 20 July 2022 6:45 AM GMT

      Grover : They are seeking 14 day police remand for offence under 153A, 295A etc, none of the offences are punishable by more than 3 years.

    • 20 July 2022 6:44 AM GMT

      Grover : I have been interrogated, search and seizure has been made, and this SIT is formed when I am under investigation of the Delhi police special cell.

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