Mohammed Zubair's Plea against UP Police FIRs-Supreme Court Hearing-LIVE UPDATES

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20 July 2022 6:33 AM GMT

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20 July 2022 9:06 AM GMT
Order : The narration of facts would indicate that FIR 172/2022 which has been registered on 20.6.22 at Delhi Police special cell invokes offences under 153A, 295A, 201, 120B IPC to which the investigating authority has addded FCRA provisions.
20 July 2022 9:05 AM GMT
Order : The narration of facts would indicate that FIR 172/2022 which has been registered on 20.6.22 at Delhi Police special cell invokes offences under 153A, 295A, 201, 120B IPC to which the investigating authority has addded FCRA provisions.
20 July 2022 9:04 AM GMT
Order : (iii) SIT was formed to ensure local police do not deal callously with provisions (iv) conduct of the petitioner's repeated acts of tweeting justify the invocation of criminal law.
20 July 2022 9:04 AM GMT
Order : Opposing these submissions, Garima Prashad AAG submitted that (i) there is genuine apprehension that tweets put out by petitioner spreads hate and there are doubts if he can be called a journalist (ii) his tweets have potential for communal divide
20 July 2022 9:03 AM GMT
Order : (counsel submission) petitioner has genuine apprehension about safety of his life following publication of several tweets administering threats to him and placed a bounty. Hence it is submitted that under Art 32 court should quash the FIRs...
20 July 2022 9:02 AM GMT
Order : following objectionable speeches; gravamen of all FIRs are the same; the instrument of the criminal law has been used to harass and silence the voice of the petitioner which would be apparent from the manner in which he has been made to face successive proceedings
20 July 2022 9:01 AM GMT
Order : In this backdrop, counsel submitted in none of the tweets the petitioner did not remotely use language which is improper or which amount to criminal offence. On the contrary, the several of the tweets the petitioner had tagged UP Police and invited action by police
20 July 2022 9:00 AM GMT
Order : indicate that the scope of investigation has been widened so as to include FCRA; broadly speaking, tweets submitted by the Delhi police before the Addl Sessions Judge also form the subject matter of FIRs in diverse police stations in Uttar Pradesh.
20 July 2022 8:59 AM GMT
Order : in Delhi and different districts of UP; all the FIRs broadly allege offences under same sections 153A, 295A, 505 IPC and 67 IT Act; in the FIR by Delhi Police, petitioner was granted regular bail; the status report submitted by Delhi police before Add Sessions Judge
20 July 2022 8:57 AM GMT
Order : Notice was issued by this Court on July 18. We have heard Ms Vrinda Grover for petitioner and Ms. Garima Prashad AAG for UP. Appearing on behalf of petitioner, Ms. Grover submitted that the tweets put by the petitioner are the subject matter of all the FIRs

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Order : The narration of facts would indicate that FIR 172/2022 which has been registered on 20.6.22 at Delhi Police special cell invokes offences under 153A, 295A, 201, 120B IPC to which the investigating authority has addded FCRA provisions.

Order : The narration of facts would indicate that FIR 172/2022 which has been registered on 20.6.22 at Delhi Police special cell invokes offences under 153A, 295A, 201, 120B IPC to which the investigating authority has addded FCRA provisions.

Order : (iii) SIT was formed to ensure local police do not deal callously with provisions (iv) conduct of the petitioner's repeated acts of tweeting justify the invocation of criminal law.

Order : Opposing these submissions, Garima Prashad AAG submitted that (i) there is genuine apprehension that tweets put out by petitioner spreads hate and there are doubts if he can be called a journalist (ii) his tweets have potential for communal divide

Order : (counsel submission) petitioner has genuine apprehension about safety of his life following publication of several tweets administering threats to him and placed a bounty. Hence it is submitted that under Art 32 court should quash the FIRs...

Order : following objectionable speeches; gravamen of all FIRs are the same; the instrument of the criminal law has been used to harass and silence the voice of the petitioner which would be apparent from the manner in which he has been made to face successive proceedings

Order : In this backdrop, counsel submitted in none of the tweets the petitioner did not remotely use language which is improper or which amount to criminal offence. On the contrary, the several of the tweets the petitioner had tagged UP Police and invited action by police

Order : indicate that the scope of investigation has been widened so as to include FCRA; broadly speaking, tweets submitted by the Delhi police before the Addl Sessions Judge also form the subject matter of FIRs in diverse police stations in Uttar Pradesh.

Order : in Delhi and different districts of UP; all the FIRs broadly allege offences under same sections 153A, 295A, 505 IPC and 67 IT Act; in the FIR by Delhi Police, petitioner was granted regular bail; the status report submitted by Delhi police before Add Sessions Judge

Order : Notice was issued by this Court on July 18. We have heard Ms Vrinda Grover for petitioner and Ms. Garima Prashad AAG for UP. Appearing on behalf of petitioner, Ms. Grover submitted that the tweets put by the petitioner are the subject matter of all the FIRs

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