SIT to probe cases against Mohammad Zubair in Uttar Pradesh Lucknow News – Times of India

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh The government on Tuesday constituted a special investigation team.sit) to investigate all the cases registered against the co-founder of Alt News Mohammad Zubair in up. The team will be headed by an Inspector General of Police level officer Preetinder Singh, while Deputy Inspector General Amit Verma will be a member.
The SIT chief will select other team members who will be an additional superintendent of police, deputy superintendent of police and an inspector rank officer.
Additional Director General of Police Law and Order Prashant Kumar said that it would be the prerogative of the SIT to take the help of the district police in the six cases registered against Zubair. Kumar said the SIT has been constituted to ensure a fair investigation in all the six cases registered against Zubair. The SIT will investigate the cases and file a charge sheet soon. Mohammad Zubair is currently in Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
According to UP Police records, on May 27 this year an FIR was registered against Zubair at Khairabad police station in Sitapur district on the complaint of a Bhagwan Sharan for an alleged derogatory tweet against Mahant Bajrang Muni, Yeti Narasimhanand and Swami Anand Swaroop Is.
Whereas, in September 2021, another FIR was registered at Mohammadi police station in Lakhimpur Kheri district on the complaint of a person named Ashish Katiyar over a tweet on Israel and Palestine conflict.
In Ghaziabad district, an FIR was registered against the co-founder of Alt News at Loni Border Police Station on June 15, 2021. In the same case, there were also commentators Rana Ayyub and Saba Naqvi and Salman Nizami, Muskoor Usmani and Shama Mohammed of Congress. Nominated.
Similarly, Ankur Rana, a resident of Muzaffarnagar in Charthwal police station of Muzaffarnagar, has lodged an FIR on 27 July 2021 accusing Zubair of threatening to kill him.
Similarly, two FIRs were registered against Zubair in Sikandrau and Kotwali police station areas of Hathras district. Police said that except Charthawal, all these FIRs are 153 (incitement with intent to incite riots), 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion), 295A (intentional intent to hurt religious sentiments and Malicious act) charges. , 505 (publishing or disseminating any statement, rumor or report with intent to provoke).