Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair released from Tihar after SC grants bail

Mohammad Zubair, co-founder of Alt News, was released from Tihar jail on Wednesday night, just hours after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail in connection with all FIRs filed in Uttar Pradesh accusing him of spewing hate speech, a senior prison official confirmed.

On June 27, the Delhi Police detained Zubair for allegedly hurting religious emotions in his tweets.

On the same charges, he was the subject of multiple FIRs in the state of Uttar Pradesh, two in Hathras and one each in Sitapur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Muzaffarnagar, Ghaziabad, and at Chandauli police station.


Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court had ordered Zubair's release on interim bail and had moved all of the UP cases to Delhi, stating that "use of the power of arrest must be undertaken cautiously."

The court said "it finds no reason or justification for the deprivation of his liberty to persist any further" and ordered disbanding of the SIT, constituted by the UP police.

Inputs from PTI