Fresh bother for Zubair as Lakhimpur native courtroom points arrest warrant towards him

Express News Service

LUCKNOW: Fresh bother hit Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair just a few hours after he bought reprieve from the Supreme Court which granted him 5-day interim bail in a case registered in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh as Lakhimpur Kheri police obtained the warrant B towards the journalist in a case lodged at Mohammadi police station on expenses of selling enmity between two teams underneath Section 153(A) (selling enmity between two teams) of IPC, final 12 months.

In Sitapur, Zubair was going through a case lodged towards him for hurting non secular sentiments by a tweet on among the seers.

In the case, lodged at Mohammadi police station, the Lakhimpur Kheri courtroom of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) has summoned Zubair to seem earlier than it on July 11. Meanwhile, a crew of Kheri police, led by investigating officer (IO) Dhiraj Shukla, reached the Sitapur jail on Saturday and served the warrant on Zubair.

The Lakhimpur Kheri case was filed in September final 12 months on a courtroom directive. 

However, Kheri SP Sanjeev Suman claimed that it was the accountability of the jail officers to provide Zubair in Lakhimpur native courtroom on July 11 because the warrant was served on the accused in Sitapur jail.

According to the Kheri police sources, one Ashish Kumar Katiyar had submitted a criticism accusing Zubair of circulating false information on Twitter so as to disturb communal concord. Following the criticism, a case was lodged towards the journalist underneath IPC Section 153-A.

Zubair was dropped at Sitapur from Delhi two days again and was lodged within the district jail in reference to a separate case filed at Khairabad police station final week. Delhi Police produced Zubair earlier than an area courtroom in Sitapur and it had despatched him to six-day custodial remand of the police.

Sitapur jail superintendent Suresh Singh mentioned that Sitapur police on Friday morning took Zubair’s custody however introduced him again to jail after a number of hours following Supreme Court order to grant him interim bail of 5 days in Sitapur case. Now, two warrants – one every of Delhi and Lakhimpur Kheri—have been pending towards Zubair, the superintendent mentioned.

He added mentioned that it could quickly be determined as to the place the journalist must be despatched as he had not been granted bail within the circumstances lodged towards him in Delhi and Lakhimpur Kheri.