By Online Desk
A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in connection with the 2018 tweet case for which he was arrested on June 27.
The bail was granted on a personal bond and surety of Rs 50,000. Zubair will not be able to leave India without the permission of the court, the verdict said.
However, Zubair will stay in jail over two more cases filed in Uttar Pradesh.
On Thursday, Zubair had moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing of the six FIRs lodged against him in several districts of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly hurting religious sentiments, and also sought interim bail in all the cases.
The move by the journalist came even as a court in Hathras in UP remanded Zubair to 14-day judicial custody.
Zubair, who is in judicial custody in Delhi in a case that is related to an alleged objectionable tweet he had posted in 2018 against a Hindu deity, was brought to the Hathras court from Tihar jail with a Delhi Police escort and taken back after the court proceedings.
His lawyer Umang Rawat argued that since the matter is four years old the journalist’s arrest was “malafide” and made under “political pressure.”
A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in connection with the 2018 tweet case for which he was arrested on June 27.
The bail was granted on a personal bond and surety of Rs 50,000. Zubair will not be able to leave India without the permission of the court, the verdict said.
However, Zubair will stay in jail over two more cases filed in Uttar Pradesh.
On Thursday, Zubair had moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing of the six FIRs lodged against him in several districts of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly hurting religious sentiments, and also sought interim bail in all the cases.
The move by the journalist came even as a court in Hathras in UP remanded Zubair to 14-day judicial custody.
Zubair, who is in judicial custody in Delhi in a case that is related to an alleged objectionable tweet he had posted in 2018 against a Hindu deity, was brought to the Hathras court from Tihar jail with a Delhi Police escort and taken back after the court proceedings.
His lawyer Umang Rawat argued that since the matter is four years old the journalist’s arrest was “malafide” and made under “political pressure.”
