The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the five days’ interim bail granted to Mohammed Zubair In relation to the FIR filed against him by the Sitapur police in Uttar Pradesh for a tweet in which he allegedly referred to three Hindu seers—Yati Narasinghanand Saraswati, Bajrang Muni, and Anand Swaroop—as “HATE MONGERS,”.
FIRs loaded over the fact checker Mohammed Zubair in the past few weeks. In one more case he was granted bail today. But he will stay in jail over two more cases. Mohammad got bail in the case filed by Delhi Police over a 2018 tweet. He was arrested last month for this reason. He will stay in jail for two cases filed in Uttar Pradesh. The Uttar Pradesh Police has filed six cases against him. He has asked SC to cancel all these cases. He has also asked to call off the Special Investigation Team formed to investigate the cases. The Delhi Police arrested Mohammed Zubair on June 27 because of his four-year-old tweet sharing a screenshot from a popular Hindi movie. He was charged and arrested just days after he flagged a video of suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s provocative comments on Prophet Mohammed during a TV debate.
