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Lakhimpur Kheri court denied bail to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in a case filed for ‘promoting enmity.’
In Kheri, the FIR against Zubair was registered at the Mohammadi police station on September 18, 2021, for a tweet he had posted earlier in May. In the tweet, Zubair had tagged the Noida police and UP DGP, flagging concerns about ‘misleading’ news shown by a channel. He had demanded action against the same. The Kheri bail denial comes a day after a Delhi court granted bail to Zubair in a similar case related and observed that “the voice of dissent is necessary for a healthy democracy”. Read full story.