Lawyer files complaint against Md Zubair accusing him of spreading misinformation and communal unrest

On Sunday, advocate Chandni Shah wrote a complaint letter to the Delhi Police Commissioner seeking legal action against Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair “for spreading misinformation and inciting communal unrest”. Shah has alleged that Zubair attempted to incite communal unrest by deliberate dissemination of misinformation and incomplete facts concerning the Gujarat University clash over namaz in a public place. Taking to X, advocate Shah shared the complaint letter e-mailed to the Delhi Police Commissioner urging the Police to file an FIR under various sections including 295A in connection with the Namaz row incident in Gujarat University involving foreign students. At such times when the country is preparing for the Loksabha Elections and is already fighting… pic.twitter.com/GyeEL9jaeC — Chandni Preeti Vijaykumar Shah March 17, 2024 Content of the complaint letter In the four-page complaint letter to Delhi CP, the lawyer has sought an “urgent complaint against Mr. Mohammed Zubair for spreading misinformation and inciting communal unrest.” Advocate Chandni Shah states, “I…hereby lodge a formal complaint against Mr. Mohammed Zubair who claims to be an Independent Fact Checker and runs a portal called ALT NEWS, for the deliberate dissemination of misinformation through social media that could potentially incite communal unrest and affect the public order, especially with the impending Lok Sabha Elections.” Explaining the context of her complaint, Shah refers to Zubair’s 17th March 2024 post on X in which he wrote – “A Student from Afghanistan while speaking to a journalist from @NewsCapitalGJ says, ‘15 Muslim students were praying Namaz inside the Hostal premise in A-Block.