Fact-Checker Mohammed Zubair's Bail Plea Rejected By UP Court
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A total of seven FIRs -- six in UP and one in Delhi -- have been filed against Mr Zubair, the co-founder of fact-check website Alt News.
Uttar Pradesh's Lakmipur court today rejected bail to fact-checker Mohammed Zubair, who has had a series of FIRs filed against him recently. In the Lakhimpur case, the complaint has been filed by a Sudarshan News employee for a tweet by Mr Zubair last year. The tweet, says the complainant, misled people about the Sudarshan channel's coverage of the Israel-Palestine dispute.Mr Zubair is already in judicial custody till July 27 in Hathras.The hearing on police custody remand will be held on July 20, Mr Zubair's advocate Harjit Singh told news agency ANI. The sessions court of Lakhimpur Kheri's Mohammadi had summoned him in a case registered on September 18, 2021, after a complaint was filed by a Sudarshan News employee. The court had sent him to judicial custody for 14 days on Monday.
Mohammed Zubair's lawyer had said that the complainant had raised an objection regarding the bail plea filed in English, due to which the hearing (for the bail) was postponed.
A total of seven FIRs -- six in UP and one in Delhi -- have been filed against Mr Zubair, the co-founder of fact-check website Alt News.
The fact-checker has been arrested in four out of the seven cases, and judicial custody has been ordered in two cases. He had requested the Supreme Court to cancel six cases filed against him by the Uttar Pradesh Police. He had also asked that the Special Investigation Team formed to investigate the cases be called off.
