
A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair in a case filed against him by the Delhi police for hurting religious sentiments through a 2018 tweet that an anonymous tweeter had found offensive. Zubair, however, will remain in jail as he has been remanded in custody in a clutch of cases filed against him in Uttar Pradesh. He has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking to quash the six FIRs filed against him in UP.
In his bail order, Additional Sessions Judge Devender Kumar Jangala of Patiala House Courts conditioned it on the journalist furnishing a bond of Rs 50,000 and agreeing to not leaving India without the court's permission.