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SC Extends Zubair's Interim Bail in Hatemongers Case, to be Listed in September

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, 12 July extended the interim bail granted to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in the 'hatemongers' case lodged by the Uttar Pradesh Police case in Sitapur till further orders of the court, said the matter would be listed on 7 September for final disposal. The UP Police have been given four weeks to file their reply to Zubair's plea seeking quashing of the First Information Report registered against him on 1 June over his tweet calling Yati Narsinghanand, Bajrang Muni, and Anand Swaroop "hatemongers." The vacation bench which heard the matter specified that this interim bail pertained only to the ‘hatemongers’ case FIR. This meant that even though Zubair got bail in the hatemongers case, he was not set free as he remained in judicial custody in a case brought by the Delhi Police against him for a separate, four-year-old tweet.

The Quint

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