By LIVELAW NEWS NETWORK
The Uttar Pradesh government today submitted before the Allahabad High Court that a series of X posts by Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of Alt-News, on Yati Narsinghanand’s alleged speech contained half-baked information and they damaged and threatened India’s sovereignty and integrity.
Additional Advocate General Manish Goyal submitted before a bench of Justice Siddhartha Varma and Justice Nalin Kumar Srivastava that Zubair’s X post, which intended to provoke violence against Yati Narsinghanand, also promoted a ‘feeling separatist activity’.
He further argued that the post was selective, aiming to paralyze the official police machinery performing its duties, encouraging people to take the law into their own hands.
AAG Goyal also submitted that, as a fact-checker, he knew that action had already been taken against Yati Narsinghanand for his alleged speech. However, Zubair continued posting on Twitter despite this, claiming that no action had been taken against him.
“Even on 4th October, he (Zubair) could have clarified saying police has booked Yati Narsinghanand, he was arrested and granted bail yet he is repeating that no action was taken against him, all separatist tendencies.. he is sitting and reposting…These posts were calculated posts on social media where he had a fan following.. in the capacity of the social media influencer.. he exercised his influence over peoplewho live in UP,” AAG Goel submitted.
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