Alt News cofounder Mohammad Zubair has moved the Allahabad High Court seeking protection from arrest in a case filed by supporters of controversial Dasna priest Yati Narsinghanand, Bar and Bench reported.
The matter is likely to be heard on November 21 and is listed before a bench of Justices Ashwini Kumar Mishra and Dr Gautam Chowdhary, according to Bar and Bench.
The FIR was filed after a complaint by one Dr Udita Tyagi on October 7 at the Web City police station in Ghaziabad, two days after violence outside the Dasna temple following Narsinghanand’s controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad. Apart from Zubair, it also named AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi and prominent Muslim cleric Arshad Madni. The complaint alleged that the violence outside the temple was a well-planned conspiracy.
Zubair has said that the FIR against him is a malicious attempt to prevent him from exposing Yati Narsinghanand's criminal activities.
The Ghaziabad Police had booked Yati for his remarks based on a complaint by sub-inspector Trivendra Singh. Yati is yet to be arrested though media reports indicated that he had been detained.
On September 29, police had said that Narsinghanand had made allegedly controversial remarks at Hindi Bhawan in Ghaziabad’s Lohia Nagar, triggering protests and police complaints in several states including Uttar Pradesh.
It’s not the first FIR against Zubair. Here’s a look at some cases that illustrate the Alt News cofounder’s role in flagging hate speech online.
The Dasna priest, on the other hand, has repeatedly courted controversy for his hate speeches despite multiple FIRs against him. To know more about Yati Narsinghanand’s ecosystem of hate, read this.
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