New Delhi, July 8: The Supreme Court today granted five-day interim bail to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in connection with a controversial FIR lodged in Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh.
A vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and JK Maheshari issued notice on Zubair’s plea and listed it for further hearing before a regular bench.
It clarified that its interim bail order is with respect to the FIR lodged in Sitapur and has nothing to do with a case registered against him in Delhi.
The Alt News co-founder was granted bail on the condition that he will not post any fresh tweets on the issue related to the case and not leave jurisdiction of the Sitapur Magistrate's court.
An FIR was lodged against Zubair in Uttar Pradesh under IPC Section 295A (deliberate and malicious act intended to outrage religious feelings) and Section 67 of the IT Act here on a complaint by Hindu Sher Sena Sitapur district president Bhagwan Sharan on June 1.
Zubair was arrested by the Delhi Police on June 27 after an unknown self proclaimed ‘hanuman bhakit’ on twitter claimed that Zubair hurt his sentiments by tweeting a screenshot of Hindi movie.
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