: Mohammed Zubair’s bail plea rejected by UP court in case related to tweet about Sudarshan News #IndiaNEWS The bail plea of Alt News co-founder and journalist Mohammed Zubair was rejected by a Lakhimpur

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Mohammed Zubair’s bail plea rejected by UP court in case related to tweet about Sudarshan News #IndiaNEWS
The bail plea of Alt News co-founder and journalist Mohammed Zubair was rejected by a Lakhimpur Kheri court in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday in a case registered against him in September for fact-checking a report carried by the television channel Sudarshan News about the Israel-Palestine dispute, reported ANI.“Hearing on police custody remand will be held on July 20,� Zubair’s lawyer Harjit Singh told ANI.The journalist was on Monday sent to judicial custody for 14 days by the Lakhimpur Kheri court.The complaint in the Lakhimpur Kheri case was filed by Ashish Kumar Katiyar, a journalist working with Sudarshan News. The police registered a first information report on September 18, 2021, after Katiyar approached a local court seeking directions for the same.Notably, the court had summoned Zubair shortly after he was granted temporary bail on July 8 in another case against him in the state for calling three Hindutva supremacists “hatemongers� in a tweet. According to the first information report, Katiyar claimed that on May 14, 2021, in connivance with Twitter, Zubair had spread rumours against Sudarshan TV based on “false graphics�. The FIR did not reproduce the contents of the tweet or mention its URL – uniform resource locator.The tweet in contention was, however, posted on May 16, 2021, as Sudarshan News showed in a broadcast to...Read more

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