SC to hear Alt News' Mohammed Zubair's bail plea today

New Delhi:  The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear the plea of fact-checker Mohammed Zubair challenging the Allahabad High Court order refusing to set aside an FIR registered against him in UP's Sitapur for a tweet in which he allegedly called Hindu seers 'hatemongers'.

A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna will hear the case.

His appeal in the top court had said that the allegations of the FIR against him are "absolutely false and baseless". He claimed to be innocent and said that he has not committed any offence.

"The police are threatening to arrest the petitioner (Zubair) and the life and liberty of the petitioner are in danger. The inclusion of this criminal offence in the FIR portrays the cavalier, malicious and arbitrary manner in which the Respondents (Uttar Pradesh Police) have acted against the Petitioner," the appeal stated.

Meanwhile, On Monday, Lakhimpur Kheri police also moved an application in a local court seeking 14 days’ police custody of the AltNews co-founder to question him. “Zubair appeared before the court of additional chief judicial magistrate Ruchi Srivastava through video conference in the case. The court sent him to 14 days’ judicial custody remand,” said additional prosecuting officer (Lakhimpur Kheri) Awdhesh Kumar. The court will hear the plea for police custody of Zubair on July 13, he added.

Mohammed Zubair was first arrested on June 27 by the Delhi police.

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