Thread by @LawBeatInd

BREAKING: The #DelhiHighCourt will today hear Alt New Co-founder, #MohammadZubair’s plea challenging his police remand.

Zubair was remanded to four days of police custody by a Delhi Court. His plea will be heard by a single judge of Justice Sanjeev Narula of the Delhi High Court.
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Advocate Vrinda Grover appears for Zubair. She mentions the matter. Bench declines to hear it urgently. Says the matter will reach after the 4-5 matters listed before it.
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Item 6 reaches the board. Advocate Vrinda Grover appears for Zubair.
Adv. Grover - I am challenging the validity of the remand order.
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Adv. Grover - A new special cell has been opened in the police which is Intelligence Fusion Strategic Operations. This is an FIR where there are 2 offences, it is barred by limitation, no court take legally take cognisance.
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Adv. Tushar Mehta appears for the Delhi Police.
Grover - The SG would be fair to represent whom he represents usually.
Mehta - This is a special appointment
Grover - For such a low matter! Tells the story itself.
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Justice Narula - The matter is coming up tomorrow before the Magistrate. Why dont you present everything before the lower court? This is not a bail petition. The police remand is for 4 days.
Grover - Yes but is it legal?
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Grover - Did a case like this warrant a police remand? Could I have been remanded in this manner? Could my laptops and phones been seized? This has become a pattern
Narula J. - Are you disputing the origin of the tweet.
Grover - No
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Grover - If it is from Android, it means that it has been tweeted from my mobile. My present mobile phone was seized, along with my laptop. But whatever seizure had been granted should have been in view of the FIR
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Grover - It is planting a dagger in my privacy. What has been said by the SC in Pegasus, I will place before your lordships.
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Grover - My mobile phone and laptop have been asked for. But the tweet could not have gone from my laptop. Why are they asking for my laptop? What this is doing is changing the structure of this investigation
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Grover - I am a journalist. My laptop is in their custody and all the tweets that are there are also tweeted by others. Those are still there. This is the genesis. The genesis is they want their hands on my devices.
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Grover: What is going to protect a citizen, any ordinary citizen, from the police? I was summoned through a S.41A notice in a different and unrelated matter. It could be said that he is a serial offender but it is equally important that I am being caught again and again

Grover: I went to the police on this S.41A notice which was not related to this case, where I was not asked anything and then I was served with another 41a notice in this FIR.
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