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Delhi police created false, concocted disclosure statement: Alt News’ Zubair
New Delhi: Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, who is being probed for posting an allegedly objectionable tweet against a Hindu deity in 2018, denied before the Delhi High Court the claim of…
- India
Alt News founders Zubair, Pratik, author Harsh Mander favourites for Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Founders of the fact-checking website Alt News, Mohammed Zubair, and Pratik Sinha and Indian author Harsh Mander are one of the favourites to win this year’s esteemed Nobel Peace Prize award for…
- India
Zubair’s laptop, devices sent for data analysis: Cops to HC in objectionable tweet case
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has told the Delhi High Court that a laptop and other devices seized from Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair are deposited with the forensic science laboratory for…
- India
SC grants liberty to Alt News’ Mohd Zubair to move Delhi HC for quashing of Sitapur FIR
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted liberty to Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair to approach the Delhi High Court for quashing of the FIR lodged against him at Sitapur in…
- India
BJP’s Manjinder Singh Sirsa files police complaint against Mohammed Zubair
New Delhi: BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa has filed a police complaint against fact checker and co-founder of Alt News website Mohammed Zubair, accusing him of “spreading hate” against cricketer Arshdeep Singh…
- India
Delhi-based businessman behind Zubair’s arrest: police
New Delhi: The Twitter user behind the arrest of fact checker and Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair is a 36-year-old Delhi-based real estate businessman who originally belongs to Ajmer in Rajasthan, police…
- India
This govt wants to silence us: Journalist Zubair on his arrest
Mohammed Zubair, Alt News co-founder, and fact-checker is finally home in Bengaluru, after spending 23 days in jail. Speaking to The Hindu about his time in prison, Zubair dropped insights as to…
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Mohammad Zubair released from Tihar Jail
New Delhi: Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair leaves from Tihar Jail after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court, in New Delhi, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Zubair was arrested by the…
- India
3 weeks after arrest, Mohammed Zubair released from Tihar jail
New Delhi: Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair was released from Tihar on Wednesday night, hours after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court in all FIRs lodged in Uttar Pradesh against…
- India
Debunking fake news is not crime: Amnesty India on Zubair case
New Delhi: Human rights group Amnesty India has demanded immediate and unconditional release of fact-checking website Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, saying debunking fake news is not a crime. Separate FIRs have…
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UP court rejects bail plea of Mohd Zubair in fact-check case
Lakhimpur Kheri: A sessions court in Uttar Pradesh’s Mohammadi on Saturday rejected the bail plea of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in a fact-check case. The hearing on police custody remand will…
- India
Lakhimpur Kheri court to hear Zubair’s bail plea today
Lakhimpur Kheri: The bail plea hearing of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair is scheduled to be held in the sessions court of Uttar Pradesh’s Mohammadi today, a day after Delhi’s Patiala House…
- India
Delhi HC grants bail to journalist Zubair in 2018 tweet case
Delhi High Court on Friday granted bail to fact-checking agency Alt News’ co-founder Mohammad Zubair in connection with the 2018 tweet case. Zubair was arrested a month ago, on June 27. The…
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SC to hear Mohammad Zubair’s plea to quash FIR registered in Sitapur
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear the plea of fact-checking website Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair challenging the Allahabad High Court order refusing to quash an FIR registered against…
- India
Only domestic payments enabled for Alt News: Razorpay
New Delhi: Razorpay, the payment gateway used by Alt News to receive donations, on Friday said only domestic payments were enabled for the fact-checking website and foreign transactions were not allowed without…
