Sitapur

A sessions court in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh sent Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair to judicial custody for 14 days on Monday.

Zubair is currently lodged in Sitapur jail. He appeared before the Sessions court via video conference.

A warrant was issued against him in Lakhimpur Kheri's Mohammadi, in a case registered against him in September 2021, after a complaint was filed by a Sudarshan News employee for a fact check tweet.

The Supreme Court last week granted him interim bail in a plea challenging the Allahabad High Court order refusing to quash the FIR registered against him for a tweet in which he allegedly called three Hindu religious leaders "hate mongers".

The interim bail to Zubair was granted for 5 days on the condition that he will not post any fresh tweets on the issue related to the case and not leave the jurisdiction of the Sitapur Magistrate's court.

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He, however, could not walk out of jail as he continues to be in judicial custody in a separate case filed in Delhi over a tweet of 2018.