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'No One Asked Me': Fact-Checker Mohammed Zubair On '2 Crores For Tweet' Charge

Mohammed Zubair was arrested by the Delhi Police on June 27

New Delhi:

Two days after leaving Tihar Jail, truth checker Mohammed Zubair stated that he'll proceed to work as he used to. Mr Zubair was arrested by the Delhi Police on June 27 for allegedly hurting spiritual sentiments by his tweets.

"I'll do my work as I used to because the honourable courtroom (Supreme Court docket) has not put any restriction," Mr Zubair stated.

On the allegation that he acquired Rs 2 crore for his tweets, Mr Zubair stated that no investigation requested him about it. "I got here to learn about this allegation solely after my launch. No investigation company requested me about it," he stated.

The allegation had been first made by Uttar Pradesh authorities in a UP Court docket. Extra Advocate Normal Garima Prashad, showing for the Uttar Pradesh authorities had stated that the petitioner shouldn't be a journalist and alleged that "he's incomes by making malicious tweets. The extra malicious the tweets are, the extra cost he will get".

"He has accepted that he has acquired ₹ 2 crore for his tweets. He's no journalist", she stated, including that here's a one who takes benefit of hate speech movies and makes them viral to create a communal divide.

Whereas ordering his launch yesterday, the Supreme Court docket had stated, "It is a set precept of regulation that energy of arrests have to be pursued sparingly. In current case no justification to maintain him in continued detention and topic him to an countless spherical of proceedings in numerous courts."

The courtroom disbanded a particular probe in UP in opposition to Mohammed Zubair and transferred all UP instances to Delhi. The judges additionally rejected the Uttar Pradesh authorities's request that Mohammed Zubair be "stopped from placing out tweets".

The very fact checker additionally stated that he was not tortured by the police.


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