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Debjit Mukherjee: The Supreme Court on Friday granted five-day interim bail to Mohammed Zubair in an FIR against him at Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh for hurting religious sentiments of Hindus, but the co-founder of Alt News will remain in judicial custody granted by a Delhi court in connection with an FIR for alleged disrespect to a Hindu deity.
The UP police, which got his custody from a Sitapur court, is in the process of taking Zubair to his residence at Bengaluru for recovering the laptop, phones and other devices he used to send out tweets that allegedly hurt religious sentiments.
A bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and J K Maheshwari granted Zubair interim bail for five days, or till further orders, and posted his petition for quashing the Sitapur FIR for detailed hearing on July 12.
