Court observes Mohammed Zubair ‘not cooperating with investigative agency’

Tuesday, 28 June 2022newsdesk

Soon after Mohammed Zubair was arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly hurting religious sentiments, a Delhi court sent the Alt-News co-founder to one-day police custody observing that he isn’t “cooperating with the investigative agency”.

New Delhi, 28 June 2022

As per news report of The Indian Express, this pertains to the remand order by the magistrate late on Monday. On Monday afternoon, Zubair was arrested for allegedly hurting religious sentiments and promoting enmity through his 2018 tweet. The Delhi Police Cyber Cell had called Zubair to join the probe in a 2020 case and later arrested him for the 2018 tweet. The tweet in question is a photo of a hotel with its board reading ‘Honeymoon Hotel’ repainted to ‘Hanuman Hotel’.

Source -The Indian Express