Zubair granted bail

The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the interim bail granted to Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair by the top court in the case registered against him at Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh. A bench comprising Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and A.S. Bopanna listed the matter for final disposal on September 7. The bench noted that the state government seeks time to file a counter affidavit and allowed the government to file a reply within four weeks and rejoinder within two weeks thereafter. "Interim bail in Sitapur FIR case shall continue till further orders. List for final disposal on September 7, 2022," said the bench. The top court's order came on a plea by Zubair seeking quashing of the FIR registered against him at Sitapur. On July 8, the Supreme Court granted an interim bail for five days to Zubair in connection with a case registered against him by the Uttar Pradesh Police for a tweet, where he allegedly called Hindu seers 'hatemongers'. A vacation bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and J.K. Maheshwari said: "The petitioner shall be granted interim bail in connection with FIR...June 1, 2022 lodged at P.S. Khairabad, District Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh for a period of five days from today or until further orders of the Regular Bench on terms and conditions to be imposed by the Judicial Magistrate-I, Sitapur, which shall include the conditions that the petitioner shall not post any tweets and shall not tamper with any evidence, electronic or otherwise in Bengaluru or anywhere e...

Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to Alt News' co-founder Mohammad Zubair in the case registered against him in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh for allegedly outraging religious feelings. The apex court also issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh police on Zubair's plea challenging the Allahabad High Court order.

Zubair, however, will remain in jail as he has been remanded to judicial custody in some of the FIRs registered against him by the UP Police for allegedly hurting religious sentiments. Zubair will be sent to the concerned jail in Uttar Pradesh after his release, according to a Tihar jail official here. The journalist is currently lodged in Tihar jail since July 2. Granting relief to the journalist, Additional Sessions Judge Devender Kumar Jangala said Indian democracy and the political parties are open for their criticism and that merely criticism of any political parties is no ground to invoke section 153A (promoting enmity between different groups) and 295A (outraging religious feelings) of the Indian Penal Code(IPC). "Undoubtedly free speech is the proper foundation of a democratic society." The court further said the Hindu religion is one of the oldest religion and most tolerant and that followers of the Hindu religion are also tolerant. Six separate FIRs have been lodged against Zubair in Sitapur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Ghaziabad, Muzaffarnagar and Hathras districts in UP. The court directed Zubair to furnish a bail bond of Rs 50,000 and one surety of like amount, and directed him not to leave the country without its prior permission and not to repeat the offence. The journalist was also ordered to ensure that his tweet or retweet, or any material on social media content is not even touching boundaries of the offence punishable under Section 153A and 295A of IPC. It said th...

Published: Fri 15 Jul 2022, 3:38 PM Last updated: Fri 15 Jul 2022, 4:28 PM Alt News co-founder and fact-checker Mohammad Zubair who was arrested in the 2018 tweet case was granted bail by Delhi Sessions Patiala House Court on Friday. Delhi Court said, "Zubair can't leave the country without prior permission of the court" The court granted him bail on a personal bail bond of Rs50,000. Zubair is currently facing a total of seven cases. He has been granted bail in two cases. He will, however, remain in judicial custody till he gets bail in the remaining cases.Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Friday granted bail to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in a case related to an alleged objectionable tweet case in which he was arrested by Delhi Police last month. Additional Sessions Judge Devender Kumar Jangla on Friday granted bail to Zubair and directed him to deposit a personal bail bond of Rs 50,000 and one like amount surety. He cannot leave the country without prior permission of the court, ASJ Devender Kumar Jangla added. On Thursday, the court had kept the order reserved after the conclusion of the argument of both sides. Delhi Police special public prosecutor Atul Srivastava, while opposing the bail plea of Mohd Zubair, submitted that the bail should not be granted at this stage as there is a violation of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act. Investigation in the matter is at a good pace without any bias, he said. Delhi Police said, “Rs 56 lakh were received by the organisa...

Jul 08, 2022, 03:00PM IST Source: Mirror Now In a big relief, the Supreme Court granted five-day interim bail to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair. He was granted bail in connection with an FIR lodged in Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly outraging religious sentiments. The bail has nothing to do with a case registered against him in Delhi.

Premium Zubair gets bail: In order, Supreme Court again draws the red line on misuse of power to arrest The order underlines that multiple criminal processes cannot be pursued by the state with the goal of keeping an accused in custody continuously while circumventing the intervention of the courts. By ruling that grant of bail by the Supreme Court is not sufficient to secure personal liberty of an individual embroiled in a series of cases, the Supreme Court, in “Fairness to the petitioner would require for the FIRs to be clubbed and handled by the same investigative agency. Overlap between allegations emanating from the FIRs emphasise the need for a consolidated, as opposed to a piecemeal, investigation by a diverse set of investigators,” a three-judge bench comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud, Surya Kant and A S Bopanna said. The bench acknowledged that the evergreening of custody of an accused through multiple cases in different jurisdictions across states deprives him of his personal liberty. “He has been granted bail by the Sessions Judge in while granting interim relief to Zubair, observed that he was caught in a “vicious cycle” wherein he is remanded in a new case as soon as he gets bail in an earlier one. Also Read | In transferring to Delhi the six FIRs from five districts in Uttar Pradesh and another case in which a chargesheet has been filed, the Supreme Court essentially invalidates the Uttar Pradesh government’s action against Zubair. The ruling in Zubair’s ca...

Journalist and Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair has been granted interim bail by Supreme Court of India on Wednesday (July 20). The bail has been granted in all FIRs in Uttar Pradesh against him. The FIRs were filed for his alleged derogatory tweets. The court said that it found no reason or justification for deprivation of his liberty. The top Indian court said that "the existence of the power of arrest must be distinguished from the exercise of arrest and the exercise of the power of arrest must be pursued sparingly." "Having found from the record that the petitioner has been subjected to a fairly sustained investigation by the Delhi police, we find no reason or justification for the deprivation of the liberty of the petitioner to persist any further. Consequently, we are of the view that the petitioner shall be released on interim bail in each of the FIRs which form the subject matter of these proceedings under Article 32 of the Constitution", it said.

Disbanding the Special Investigation Team formed by Uttar Pradesh and underlining that there is no justification to keep him in continued custody, the Supreme Court Wednesday granted interim bail to Arrested on June 27 following a case filed in Delhi, he was released from the Tihar Jail Wednesday evening. In an order dictated in open court, the bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud, Surya Kant and A S Bopanna said, “Having regard to the fact that the petitioner has been subjected to comprehensive investigation by the Also Read | It transferred the investigation in six FIRs in UP to the Special Cell of the Delhi Police as they involve the same alleged offensive tweets. Of the six cases, two are registered in Hathras, one each in Muzaffarnagar, Ghaziabad, A seventh case in Chandauli, in which a chargesheet has already been filed, has also been transferred for trial before the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Delhi’s Patiala House Courts. The case in Chandauli was filed against Zubair by an employee of Sudarshan News for allegedly spreading misinformation about the news outlet. The bench stated that other than the seven current cases, any new Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of Alt News, at the Patiala house court in New Delhi. (Express File Photo by Prem Nath Pandey) It granted Zubair the liberty to move the Delhi High Court for quashing of these FIRs even as the cases are clubbed and transferred. Also Read | “Consequently, the Special Investigation Team constituted by the Director Gener...

Zubair, however, will remain in jail as he has been remanded to judicial custody in some of the FIRs registered against him by the UP Police for allegedly hurting religious sentiments. Zubair will be sent to the concerned jail in Uttar Pradesh after his release, according to a Tihar jail official here. The journalist is currently lodged in Tihar jail since July 2. Granting relief to the journalist, Additional Sessions Judge Devender Kumar Jangala said Indian democracy and the political parties are open for their criticism and that merely criticism of any political parties is no ground to invoke section 153A (promoting enmity between different groups) and 295A (outraging religious feelings) of the Indian Penal Code(IPC). "Undoubtedly free speech is the proper foundation of a democratic society." The court further said the Hindu religion is one of the oldest religion and most tolerant and that followers of the Hindu religion are also tolerant. Six separate FIRs have been lodged against Zubair in Sitapur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Ghaziabad, Muzaffarnagar and Hathras districts in UP. The court directed Zubair to furnish a bail bond of Rs 50,000 and one surety of like amount, and directed him not to leave the country without its prior permission and not to repeat the offence. The journalist was also ordered to ensure that his tweet or retweet, or any material on social media content is not even touching boundaries of the offence punishable under Section 153A and 295A of IPC. It said th...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the interim bail granted to Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair by the top court in the case registered against him at Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh. A bench comprising Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and A.S. Bopanna listed the matter for final disposal on September 7. The bench noted that the state government seeks time to file a counter affidavit and allowed the government to file a reply within four weeks and rejoinder within two weeks thereafter. "Interim bail in Sitapur FIR case shall continue till further orders. List for final disposal on September 7, 2022," said the bench. The top court's order came on a plea by Zubair seeking quashing of the FIR registered against him at Sitapur. On July 8, the Supreme Court granted an interim bail for five days to Zubair in connection with a case registered against him by the Uttar Pradesh Police for a tweet, where he allegedly called Hindu seers 'hatemongers'. A vacation bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and J.K. Maheshwari said: "The petitioner shall be granted interim bail in connection with FIR...June 1, 2022 lodged at P.S. Khairabad, District Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh for a period of five days from today or until further orders of the Regular Bench on terms and conditions to be imposed by the Judicial Magistrate-I, Sitapur, which shall include the conditions that the petitioner shall not post any tweets and shall not tamper with any evidence, electronic or otherwise in Bengaluru or anywhere e...