Delhi's Patiala Sessions Court deferred the hearing on Alt news co-founder Mohammed Zubair's bail plea for July 14, news agency ANI reported. The case is related to an objectionable tweet he had posted in 2018 against a Hindu deity. A magisterial court, on July 2, had dismissed his bail plea and sent him to 14-day judicial custody (JC) in the case. The magisterial court had cited the nature and gravity of the offences against Zubair and observed that the matter was at the initial stage of the investigation.
This came after a court in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri summoned Zubair on July 11 in a case registered in November last year on the charge of promoting enmity. Shortly after Zubair got an interim bail from Supreme Court on Friday in a case registered in Sitapur for hurting religious sentiments, Lakhimpur Kheri Police served him a warrant to appear in court. The Supreme Court on Friday granted five-day interim bail to Zubair in connection with an FIR lodged against him in Sitapur district but he will remain in custody as per the order of a Delhi court in another case.