Abhijit Iyer Mitra moves Delhi HC against Twitter account ban for tweet on Mohammed Zubair’s bail order

Researcher Abhijit Iyer Mitra has moved the Delhi High Court against Twitter for banning his account after his tweet on the Supreme Court granting bail to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, who was accused of hurting religious sentiments in a 2018 tweet.

The matter is listed before a single-judge bench of Justice Mini Pushkarna on Tuesday.

Currently working as a research fellow at Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, a Delhi-based think-tank, Mitra has said that after Zubair was granted bail in July by the apex court, he learnt that a journalist working with a popular television news channel had “stood surety” and furnished Zubair’s bail bond before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Patiala House Courts.