Supreme Court To Hear Zubair’s Plea Seeking Quashing of ‘Hatemongers’ FIR Today

Zubair on Monday also moved a Delhi court seeking bail in the case registered against him over the 2018 tweet.

The Supreme Court bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna will on Tuesday, 12 July, hear the plea by Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair seeking to quash the First Information Report (FIR) registered against him on 1 June by the Uttar Pradesh police over his tweet calling Yati Narsinghanand, Bajrang Muni, and Anand Swaroop "hatemongers."

The Supreme Court had granted five-day interim bail to Zubair on Friday, 8 July. The top court specified that the interim bail pertained only to the ‘hatemongers’ case FIR, which meant that even though Zubair got bail, he was not released from custody.