Mohammed Zubair was first arrested on June 27 by the Delhi police.
Fact-checker Mohammed Zubair has been summoned by Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur police in a case registered against him in September last year. The complaint had been filed by a Sudarshan News employee for a tweet made by Mr Zubair on May 14, 2021.
The complainant, Ashish Katiyar, alleged that Zubair misled people through his tweet. In the tweet, Zubair had tweeted about Sudarshan channel's coverage of the Israel-Palestine dispute.
"RW propaganda channel @SudarshanNewsTV has used a pic of Al Masjid an Nabawi from Madina, superimposed it with an old pic from Ghaza, with graphics bombing the Mosque. Is this reporting or trying to incite violence (sic)," the fact-checker had tweeted in May last year.
The warrant comes a day after the Supreme Court granted five days' interim bail to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in a case registered in Sitapur for hurting religious sentiments through a tweet.
Mohammed Zubair was first arrested on June 27 by the Delhi police over a four-year-old tweet that carried a screenshot from a Hindi film released in 1983. The arrest came days after he had flagged a video of now-suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma's provocative remarks on Prophet Mohammed on a TV show.
Then he was taken to Sitapur, where the case over the "hatemongers" tweet was registered.
The legal position now is that Mr Zubair stays in Tihar Jail as a Delhi court had sent him to judicial custody for 14 days on July 2.