Delhi Police seizes laptop computer, arduous disks from Altnews co-founder Zubair’s Bengaluru home

By PTI

NEW DELHI: A four-member Delhi Police workforce on Thursday seized a laptop computer and arduous disks belonging to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair from his residence in Bengaluru, officers mentioned.

Zubair was arrested on Monday for allegedly hurting spiritual sentiments of Hindus by way of an “objectionable” tweet he posted in 2018. On Tuesday, a Delhi courtroom prolonged his custodial interrogation by 4 days.

The Delhi Police workforce reached Zubair’s residence at RT Nagar space in Bengaluru at round 11:30 am and picked up digital proof, together with his laptop computer and arduous disks, a senior police officer mentioned.

Zubair has been introduced again to Delhi the place he can be additional questioned concerning the case, he mentioned.

On Wednesday, the police had written to a number of banks in search of details about Zubair’s account particulars and different monetary transactions.

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The officer additionally mentioned the cell phone being utilized by the co-founder of the fact-checking web site had been formatted and didn’t have info associated to the case.

According to police, Zubair mentioned he had misplaced the telephone which was allegedly utilized in posting the objectionable tweet.

Meanwhile, the nameless Twitter deal with which flagged the tweet and raised a criticism, doesn’t exist on the microblogging website anymore, sources within the Delhi Police mentioned.

Zubair has been booked underneath sections 153A (selling enmity between completely different teams on grounds of faith, race, hometown, language and so forth.) and 295A (deliberate and malicious act supposed to outrage spiritual emotions) of the Indian Penal Code, in response to police.