As per the report, law enforcement agency had asked to join investigation against him under sections 153/295. Police said that it had sufficient evidence against him hence arrest was made during the course of investigation.
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Monday arrested Mohammad Zubair of AltNews for charges of hurting religious sentiments and promoting enmity among people. He was arrested by police under sections 153/295 of the IPC. Zubair is one of the founders of fact-checking website AltNews
As per the report, law enforcement agency had asked to join investigation against him under sections 153/295. Police said that it had sufficient evidence against him hence arrest was made during the course of investigation.
Delhi Police said that the case was filed on basis of a post on Twitter by handle Hanuman Bhakt @ balajikijaiin where he showed his anger against another Twitter handle in name of Mohammed Zubair regarding the post “BEFORE 2014: Honeymoon Hotel. After 2014: Hanuman Hotel.
According to the police, a picture (in tweet) shown where signboard of hotel ‘Honeymoon Hotel (in Hindi)’ changed to ‘Hanuman Hotel (in Hind)’. Hanuman Bhakt @ balajikijaiin tweeted, “Linking our God Haunman ji with honeymoon is a direct insult of Hindus because he is brahmchari. Kindly take action against this guy.
It was further stated that Zubair containing picture & words against a particular religious community are highly provocative and done deliberately which are more than sufficient to incite hatred among people which can be detrimental for maintenance of public tranquillity. According to the reports, the accused will be produced soon before the duty magistrate for seeking further PC remand.
AltNerws co-founder Pratik Sinha, in a tweet, said, “After the medical examination, Zubair is being taken to an undisclosed location. Neither Zubair’s lawyers or I are being told where. We are in the police van with him. No police person is wearing any name tag.”
Delhi BJP leader Kapil Mishra tweeted, “Fake News peddler , jihadi propaganda gang member zubair is arrested by Delhi Police. Count down was on for long as he was trying to cause communal tension and riots through his fake news platforms.”