New Delhi, July 20:The Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair was released from Tihar after being granted interim bail by the Indian Supreme Court. The Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair was arrested by the Delhi police on June 27 on news report through his tweets.
Multiple FIRs were lodged against him on similar charges in Hathras, Sitapur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Muzaffarnagar, Ghaziabad, and Chandauli police station of Indian state Utter Pardash .
Mohammed Zubair has been released from Tihar jail Wednesday night, hours ," a senior official confirmed.
The Indian Supreme Court, earlier in the day, ordered the release of Zubair on interim bail, saying, "Exercise of the power of arrest must be pursued sparingly" and transferred all the cases in UP to Delhi.
The court said "it finds no reason or justification for the deprivation of his liberty to persist any further" and ordered disbanding of the SIT, constituted by the UP police.