New Delhi:Mohammed Zubair, the co-founder of Alt News, on Thursday approached the Delhi High Court challenging his police remand in a case related to an alleged objectionable tweet he had posted in 2018.
The petition, which challenges the trial court's June 28 order granting four days of custody of Zubair to the Delhi Police was mentioned by his lawyer, advocate Vrinda Grover, before Justice Sanjeev Narula who agreed to list the matter for hearing on Friday. Meanwhile, a four-member team of the Delhi Police on Thursday reached Zubair's residence in Bengaluru as part of the investigation related to his 2018 tweet that led to his arrest, police said.
"Our four-member team, along with Zubair who is currently in police custody, has reached his house in Bengaluru. Our team members are there to collect electronic evidence in relation to the case. This includes his mobile phone or the laptop that he must have used to post the tweet in question," news agency PTI quoted a senior officer saying.
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Twitter handle that flagged Zubair's 2018 tweet deleted: Police sources On Wednesday, the police had written to multiple banks seeking information about Zubair's account details and other financial transactions. The officer also said the mobile phone being used by the co-founder of the fact-checking website has been formatted and does not have information related to the case. According to police, Zubair has said he lost the phone which was allegedly used in posting the objectionable tweet.
Zubair was arrested by the Delhi Police on June 27 for allegedly hurting religious sentiments through one of his tweets and was sent to one-day police custody by the trial court on the same day. After being produced on the expiry of his one-day custodial interrogation, his custody was extended by another four days by Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Snigdha Sarvari. Earlier this month, a case against Zubair was registered under sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, language, etc.) and 295A (deliberate and malicious act intended to outrage religious feelings) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
