Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair arrested, accused of hurting religious sentiments

Delhi: Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair was arrested on Monday for hurting religious sentiments. Delhi Police has registered a case against Zubair under section 153/295 of IPC. According to the information, the IFSO unit of Special Cell of Delhi Police has arrested Zubair for spreading communal disturbance on social media. According to the police, it had received a complaint against Zubair on June 27 through Twitter, which referred to a tweet by Zubair. The police had called Zubair for questioning today after registering a case under sections 153A and 295A of the IPC in this regard.

The Special Cell claims that after having sufficient evidence against Zubair, he has been arrested in the present case. Police said that Zubair is being produced before the duty magistrate seeking police remand for further investigation in the case.

Let us tell you that Mohammad Zubair runs a fact checking website named Alt News. He is accused of hurting the religious sentiments of the people in the name of alleged fact checking.

In the past, protests erupted across the country over alleged controversial remarks against Prophet Mohammad by suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma and expelled leader Naveen Kumar Jindal, with violence erupting in some places. Allegedly, these demonstrations were also fueled by the co-founder of Alt News, Mohammad Zubair.