Mohammed Zubair, AltNews co-founder, arrested for allegedly commenting and hurting religious sentiments
Shreya shaurya
Jun 28, 2022
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On Monday, New Delhi police arrested Zubair on a charge of hurting and promoting enmity on religious grounds and deliberately impairing religious feelings. On 19th June Zubair tweeted a picture of a hotel named Honeymoon and in his tweet, it's clearly seen he is linking our god Hanuman Ji with honeymoon as a direct insult to Hindus because he is brahmachari.
In the tweet, Mohammed Zubair, the co-founder of fact-check site Alt News, shared a clip from legendary filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 1983 classic Kissi Se Na Kehna.
The case was registered at the Special Cell police station under sections 153 A (promoting enmity between different religious communities) and 295 A. Deliberate and intended malicious acts, to outrage the religious feelings of Hindus by insulting their religion or religious beliefs. The whole case came to the discussion when the complaint of a Twitter user with the profile name “Hanuman Bhakt” and handle @balajikijaiin.
In the March 24, 2018 tweet, Zubair had said “Before 2014: Honeymoon Hotel. After 2014: Hanuman Hotel” and attached the image of a hotel signboard where the name of the establishment was ostensibly changed.
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