On Monday, Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair was arrested by the special cell of Delhi Police on the charges of hurting religious sentiments and promoting enmity. Zubair was arrested under sections 153A and 295 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Zubair was arrest days after several Hinduphobic posts from his Facebook account had gone viral. The Left ‘liberal’ faces are now beating their chest and have ganged up justifying Zubair’s Hinduphobia. Number of politicians, journalists, and political commentators have put out tweets in support of Mohammed Zubair, some even calling out his arrest a blow to fundamental rights.
One of the politicians who couldn’t bear Zubair’s arrest was AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi. Owaisi, as usual, brought a ‘Muslim angle’ to the case by asking why Delhi Police does nothing about anti-Muslim genocidal slogans being raised. It is to be reminded of that it was Zubair himself, who a few weeks ago shared an out-of-context clip of Nupur Sharma’s comments on Prophet Mohammed that led to Islamists all over the world issuing death threats to her.
TMC MP Derek O’Brien went far beyond to refer fake news peddler Zubair as ‘one of the world’s finest journalists’. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor also condemned Zubair’s arrest while referring to Zubair’s Fact-checking cum narrative factory as “a vital service in our post-truth political environment, rife with disinformation.” “They debunk falsehoods whoever perpetrates them,” Tharoor said while calling Zubair’s arrest an ‘attack on truth’. Congress seems to be a little too distressed over the arrest as the party senior leader Rahul Gandhi too backed up Mohammed Zubair.
Islamist outfit, the Tipu Sultan Party, applied the ‘secular’ logic demanding ex-BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s arrest because Mohammed Zubair has been arrested. In their tweet, the party asked if arresting Zubair was a justice of secular law.
An Islamist journalist from the leftist propaganda outlet The Wire, Arfa Khanum Sherwani, called Mohammed Zubair a 'frontline democracy defender in India'. "His fact-checking was puncturing BJP’s propaganda on a daily basis. The arrest of Zubair is an attack on truth and free press in India," she wrote on Twitter.
Left trying hard to glorify Zubair as a 'journalist' . A journalist who writes for Al Jazeera, Rohin Kumar, called Zubair 'the Finest fact-checker in India'. He hailed the Alt-News co-founder for his alleged 'massive contribution to Indian Journalism'. Another journalist working for The Quint, Fatima Khan wrote "Zubair is the finest journalist of our times. Hanging my head in shame, and rage."
However, as the truth is all out in the public domain, Alt news and its founder Mohammed Zubair are now of no where with their Hinduphobic propaganda , Pro congress and pro left reports. The parties and left faces are trying to return the organization’s favor though.
Upon Zubair's arrest, the Delhi police informed, "The said post of Mohd. Zubair containing picture & words against a particular religious community are highly provocative & done deliberately which are more than sufficient to incite hatred among people, which can be detrimental for maintenance of public tranquillity."