UP Police books Alt News fact-checker Mohammed Zubair for revealing details of minor in Muzaffarnagar school case

NewsBharati    28-Aug-2023 15:51:43 PM
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Muzaffarnagar, Aug 28: In a significant development in the Muzaffarnagar school case, Uttar Pradesh police booked Alt News’ co-founder and so-called fact-checker Mohammed Zubair for disclosing the identity of the minor who was slapped in the Muzaffarnagar school on video that went viral on social media.
 

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The FIR dated August 28 names Mohammad Zubair as the accused for revealing the identity of the minor in the sensitive case. He has been booked under Section 74 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015.
 
 
NCPCR has warned against publishing videos on social media
 
On 25th August, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)’s chief, Priyank Kanoongo, had urged the public not to publish the video. He said, “In Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar, the incident of a teacher getting a child beaten up by other children in the class has been reported. Taking cognisance, instructions are being issued for action. Everyone is requested not to share the video of the child. Give information about such incidents by email. Do not become a part of the crime by revealing the identity of the children.”
 
 
Following NCPCR’s warning Zubair deleted the video and played the victim in advance, saying, “Deleting the video as NCPCR might take action against the ‘messenger'”.
 
Muzaffarnagar school case
 
On Friday (August 25), a video of a student being slapped by his classmates, on the teacher’s instructions, went viral on social media. The incident took place at the Neha Public School in Khubbapur village in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh.
 
Reports suggest that the incident took place on Thursday (August 24) when a student got his multiplication table wrong. The class teacher, who is a handicapped woman, instructed other kids in the class to slap him. She was identified as Tripta Tyagi, the owner of the Neha Public School.
 
In a video that went viral on social media, the said student could be seen in tears while other kids slap him one by one. Tyagi was also heard saying, “Kya tum maar rahe ho? Zor se maaro na (Why are you hitting him lightly? Hit him hard).” She had also made a reference to ‘Mohammedan students.’
 
Police, father and cousin of the victim deny communal angle
 
While speaking about the incident, SP (Muzaffarnagar) Satyanarayan Prajapat, informed, "In the video, the teacher said that the Mohammedan children, who are not looked after by their mothers, go astray. This was also confirmed by the man who shot the video."
 
The victim’s father categorically stated that there was no religious or Hindu-Muslim angle in this case as was being wrongfully portrayed by the Islamo-leftist cabal on social media to fan communal disharmony.
 
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Additionally, the cousin of the kid who recorded the video of the incident and identified himself as Nadeem, son of Mohd Imtiaz, also asserted the same.
 
 
While elaborating on the incident, he highlighted that the accused teacher was asking other students to beat his cousin. However, he added that the teacher’s remark and the video were edited to make aggravated and communal claims regarding what transpired in front of him.
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