The Supreme Court on Thursday listed for July 8 an appeal filed by Mohammed Zubair, Mohammed Zubair, the jailed co-founder of fact-check website Alt News, for his liberty, right to free speech and protection from death threats.
Taking the case on board and after noting the plea for urgency, a Vacation Bench led by Justice Indira Banerjee, on an oral mentioning made by Mr. Zubair’s lawyer, senior advocate Colin Gonsalves, ordered the case to be “listed on July 8 before the appropriate Bench subject to assignment”. The Chief Justice of India has to formally assign the case to a Bench.
On June 1, 2022, the Uttar Pradesh Police had registered a case against Mr. Zubair on the basis of a complaint that he tweeted “offensive words towards mahants of religious places symbolising our faith and thereby hurting our religious sentiments”.
