The Supreme Court has granted interim bail to fact-checking website Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair in all the six FIRs registered against him in Uttar Pradesh.
Supreme Court also ordered disbanding of the SIT formed by UP Police for investigation of FIRs against Zubair.
Mohammed Zubair, a co-founder of fact-checking website Alt News, was arrested last month by Delhi police over a 2018 tweet on charges of insulting Hindu religious beliefs.
Police in Uttar Pradesh state later charged him in a separate case for using the term “hatemongers” for three Hindu monks who made inflammatory comments about Muslims, with at least one calling for “genocide” of the minority community.
The Uttar Pradesh police also charged him with criminal conspiracy, destroying evidence and receiving foreign funds in at least half a dozen other cases.