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LUCKNOW: Sitapur police were given six-day custodial remand of Alt Information co-founder Mohammed Zubair who was once produced earlier than an area court docket in Sitapur on Thursday for a listening to in reference to a case lodged towards him for hurting the spiritual sentiments of a group.
As in keeping with the Sitapur police, the FIR was once lodged towards the Alt Information co-founder at the foundation of a criticism submitted by way of one Bhagwan Sharan on Might 27 claiming that the journalist had harm the emotions of a group by way of tweeting towards Mahant Bajrang Muni, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati and Swami Anand Swaroop.
Zubair, who were arrested by way of the Delhi police on June 28, and thereafter was once passed over to Sitapur police on July 4. The journalist was once produced in Sitapur district court docket which despatched him to fourteen days of judicial remand. Since Zubair was once lodged in Tihar prison, he was once despatched again to Delhi.
In step with Sitapur police circle officer Piyush Kumar Singh, they sought Zubair’s remand for wondering and accumulating proof. “As in keeping with the court docket order, the remand length will start from Friday at 10 am,” he mentioned.
UP police had filed a fee sheet towards Zubair within the case registered at Khairabad police station in Sitapur. “A manufacturing warrant was once issued by way of the Sitapur native court docket after the fee sheet was once filed towards Zubair, who was once booked underneath the costs of injuring spiritual sentiments and underneath sections of the Data Era Act,” he added.
