A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri has summoned AltNews co-founder Mohammed Zubair on July 11 in a case registered last November on the charge of promoting enmity, a senior official said on Saturday.

Shortly after Zubair got interim bail from the Supreme Court on Friday in a case registered in Sitapur for hurting religious sentiments, Lakhimpur Kheri police served him a warrant to appear in court.

The Supreme Court on Friday granted five-day interim bail to Zubair in connection with an FIR lodged against him in Sitapur district but he will remain in custody as per the order of a Delhi court in another case related to hurting religious sentiments through a tweet in 2018.

“The court of the additional chief judicial magistrate, Mohammadi in Kheri district, issued the warrant against Mohd Zubair, which was served by Kheri police on Friday,” additional superintendent of police Arun Kumar Singh said on Saturday.

Mohammadi police station in-charge Ambar Singh said “a case against Mohd Zubair had been lodged by Ashish Katiyar, reporter for a private news channel, on November 25, 2021, by an order by a Kheri court”.

“In his complaint, Katiyar had alleged Zubair of misleading people through a tweet about his channel,” he said.

Inspector Ambar Singh said “On Friday, Kheri police reached Sitapur and handed over a warrant issued by Mohammadi ACJM’s court to Sitapur district prison officials where Zubair was lodged.”