Twitter deal with that flagged Zubair’s 2018 tweet deleted: Police sources

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The nameless Twitter deal with, a grievance from which led to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair’s arrest, doesn’t exist on the microblogging web site anymore.

Sources within the Delhi Police mentioned the Twitter deal with that had raised the problem of Zubair’s tweet has been deleted. “We are trying to identify and trace the user of the Twitter account to ascertain the reason behind him or her deleting the account. However, we suspect that the person must be scared after the matter came to limelight,” a supply mentioned.

The variety of followers of the Twitter deal with, which had flagged a 2018 tweet by Zubair in opposition to a Hindu deity, went previous 1,200 in an evening.

“The Twitter handle namely Hanuman Bhakt @balajikijaiiin had shared a tweet against another Twitter handle in the name of Mohammed Zubair@zoo_bear, in which it has been tweeted by Zubair that ‘Before 2014: Honeymoon Hotel. After 2014: Hanuman Hotel’ and has shown a picture of a signboard of a hotel named “Honeymoon Hotel” changed to “Hanuman Hotel,” the FIR learn.

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According to the primary data report, @balajikijaiiin tweeted: “Linking our God Hanuman ji with Honey Moon is direct insult of Hindus because he is brahmchari. Kindly take action against this guy. “

A Delhi courtroom on Tuesday prolonged Zubair’s custodial interrogation by 4 days.

The co-founder of the fact-checking web site was arrested by the Delhi Police on Monday for allegedly hurting spiritual sentiments by one in every of his tweets posted in 2018.

On June 20, a case in opposition to Zubair was registered underneath sections 153A (selling enmity between totally different teams on grounds of faith, race, homeland, language and so forth.) and 295A (deliberate and malicious act meant to outrage spiritual emotions) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), KPS Malhotra, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations), had mentioned.

According to the DCP, Zubair was arrested in reference to one in every of his tweets that had a questionable picture with a function to intentionally insult the god of a selected faith.