Through PTI
NEW DELHI: A four-member Delhi Police crew on Thursday seized a pc and tough disks belonging to Alt Information co-founder Mohammed Zubair from his place of abode in Bengaluru, officers stated.
Zubair used to be arrested on Monday for allegedly hurting spiritual sentiments of Hindus via an “objectionable” tweet he posted in 2018. On Tuesday, a Delhi court docket prolonged his custodial interrogation by means of 4 days.
The Delhi Police crew reached Zubair’s place of abode at RT Nagar house in Bengaluru at round 11:30 am and picked up digital proof, together with his pc and tough disks, a senior police officer stated.
Zubair has been introduced again to Delhi the place he’ll be additional puzzled in regards to the case, he stated.
On Wednesday, the police had written to a couple of banks looking for details about Zubair’s account main points and different monetary transactions.
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The officer additionally stated the cell phone being utilized by the co-founder of the fact-checking web site were formatted and didn’t have data associated with the case.
In keeping with police, Zubair stated he had misplaced the telephone which used to be allegedly utilized in posting the objectionable tweet.
In the meantime, the nameless Twitter maintain which flagged the tweet and raised a criticism, does no longer exist at the microblogging web site anymore, assets within the Delhi Police stated.
Zubair has been booked beneath sections 153A (selling enmity between other teams on grounds of faith, race, fatherland, language and so forth.) and 295A (planned and malicious act supposed to outrage spiritual emotions) of the Indian Penal Code, in step with police.