Mohammed Zubair: Separate FIRs have been lodged in opposition to Mohammed Zubair in Uttar Pradesh.
New Delhi:
Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair on Monday sought an pressing itemizing of his plea within the Supreme Courtroom searching for quashing of FIRs lodged in opposition to him in a number of districts of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly outraging spiritual emotions.
A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana took notice of the submissions of Mohammed Zubair’s lawyer Vrinda Grover that the petitioner, a truth checker and journalist, has been dealing with a slew of FIRs and his plea wanted an pressing listening to.
“Listing it earlier than Justice DY Chandrachud. You’ll be able to point out earlier than that bench,” mentioned the bench. The recent plea of Mohammed Zubair has additionally challenged the structure of the Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) by the Uttar Pradesh authorities to probe the six circumstances.
The plea mentioned all of the six FIRs filed in Uttar Pradesh which have been transferred to the SIT for investigation is the subject material of the FIR which is being probed by the Delhi Police particular cell.
Separate FIRs have been lodged in opposition to Mohammed Zubair in Sitapur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Ghaziabad, Muzaffarnagar, and Hathras districts on prices of allegedly hurting spiritual emotions, making sarcastic remarks on information anchors, disrespecting Hindu gods, and inflammatory posts.