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Bail plea of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair to come up for hearing in an alleged case of promoting enmity, registered by Delhi police, today. It will come up before an Additional Sessions judge at Patiala House Courts.

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A magisterial court had previously denied him bail and remanded him to 14 days of judicial custody.

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Additional Sessions Judge Devender Kumar Jangala presides.

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Advocate Vrinda Grover representing Mohammed Zubair.

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Grover begins arguments..informs court about the sections of Indian Penal Code Zubair is booked under and bail is sought.

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Grover: I'm a fact checker, and co director of Alt News. I fact check information.

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Grover now mentions the basis of the FIR–tweet of March 2018. 'Nor am I concealing nor am I denying this tweet." Applicant tweeted from his Android phone.

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Grover: What is the content of the tweet. It will have to be seen if the tweet creates enmity between communities... There should be two different communities.

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Grover: The image of the tweet is from the Hrishikesh Mukherjee film Kissi Se Na Kehna... It's a film of 1983 released for full public view. Film pe koi rok nahi hai.

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Grover: I have the video on a pendrive. I can play it for the court right now.

Judge: Later on

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Grover: Ye bahut commonly tweet hua, particular image including in an article of the Indian Express. Same image hai..

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Grover: Many people... Tweet the same thing... Same thing saying "before BJP after BJP". Then a national daily published it... This has been published many times on social media.

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Grover: This is an anonymous Twitter handle and he tags Delhi police and retweets my tweet and says he has hurt my sentiments.

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Grover: See the timing... FIR lodged after a few hours after the tweet comes from the anonymous handle.

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Grover: It's a pattern in this case. Har second mein improvement hai..What is, after 4 years, so provocative, and will create mayhem? 37 years after the film came.. koi jhagda, danga-fasad nahi hua.

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Grover: This Twitter profile is made in 2021. He has only one follower. No algorithm can lead him to this tweet. Delhi police finds it. While doing social media monitoring they would have certainly seen all other tweets with Twitter image and words
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Grover: but they did not find anyone else. There's malafide writ large.

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Grover: I was given protection by Delhi High Court. They have filed a status report saying he has no involvement (in a separate case).

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Public Prosecutor Atul Shrivastava appears through video conferencing, seeks time. He informs about Supreme Court hearing a case against Zubair.

Judge asks if it's the same matter.

PP says it's a different matter.

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Grover places on record the Supreme Court order. She says it's a case where prima facie case is not made out. She seeks hearing tomorrow. PP says he is in Bhopal.

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Grover: Yesterday Supreme Court passed an order that bail must be the rule. These orders have to be enforced by the law of the land.

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PP requests for July 14.

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Hearing on July 14 at 12.30 pm.

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