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 12:13 PM IST

      Grover : The gravamen of all FIRs are the same. I am seeking a remedy under Aricle 32 to prevent the instrumentalization of criminal law remedy to harass me.

      Grover : They have formed a SIT now. It is formed on July 10 after this Court grants me protection in Sitapur case. 

    • 20 July 2022 12:12 PM IST

      Grover : Prima facie, there is no offence made out. And FIRs are lodged by correspondents by this very channel(Sudarshan).

      Grover : Even the langauge in my tweets do not cross the threshold. And I am tagging the police for action. And what the FIR says. That I have incited global Muslims? I was tagging police as a citizen.

    • 20 July 2022 12:09 PM IST

      Grover : Who is actually inciting? The graphic shared by Sudarshan TV channel. I as a fact checker place the actual image of Gaza bombing and image of real mosque. For this, FIR lodged for 153A, 295A. This is about silencing.

    • 20 July 2022 12:08 PM IST

      Grover : Please see the tweets, there is no incitement whatsoever. He is pointing out as a fact checker that the picture of mosque used in a graphic of Sudarshan TV is wrong mosque. And I tag the police saying hope they will take action.

    • 20 July 2022 12:07 PM IST

      Justice Chandrachud : He was arrested in Delhi FIR and he was granted bail. Sitapur FIR we granted bail. In Hathras case..

      Grover : In Hathras case remanded to judicial custody. Today, police remand application will be heard in Lakhimpur Kheri case

    • 20 July 2022 12:05 PM IST

      Grover submits that the many tweets are subject matters of same FIRs.


    • 20 July 2022 12:04 PM IST

      Advocate Vrinda Grower commences her arguments for Zubair

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