: Mohammed Zubair summoned by Lakhimpur Kheri court in Uttar Pradesh on July 11 #IndiaNEWS A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri on Friday issued a warrant summoning Alt News co-founder Mohammed

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Mohammed Zubair summoned by Lakhimpur Kheri court in Uttar Pradesh on July 11 #IndiaNEWS
A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri on Friday issued a warrant summoning Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair before it on July 11 shortly after he got interim bail in another case, The Indian Express reported.Earlier on Friday, the Supreme Court had granted Zubair interim bail for five days in a case filed against him by the Uttar Pradesh Police for calling three Hindutva supremacists “hatemongers� in a tweet. The journalist, however, cannot walk free as he is in judicial custody in another case filed by the Delhi Police.The case in Lakhimpur Kheri was filed in September after a court order. The complainant, a man named Ashish Kumar Katiyar, had alleged that Zubair circulated false news on Twitter in a bid to disturb communal harmony. The police had booked the Alt News co-founder under Section 153A of the Indian Penal Code, which relates to promoting enmity between social groups.On Friday, the police in Lakhimpur Kheri moved a court seeking a warrant against him. “The Lakhimpur Kheri court has summoned Zubair in court on July 11,� Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Suman said. The police served the warrant at the Sitapur district jail, where the journalist is lodged.Zubair had moved the Supreme Court after the Allahabad High Court last month refused to quash the first information report filed...Read more

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