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2025 Supreme(All) 2232

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
Siddhartha Varma, Yogendra Kumar Srivastava
Mohammed Zubair – Appellant
Versus
State Of Uttar Pradesh – Respondent


Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioner: Devaang Savla,Rajrshi Gupta,Tanmay Sadh
For the Respondent: Kapil Tyagi,G.A.

JUDGMENT :

Siddhartha Varma, J.

1. Heard Sri Dileep Kumar, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Tanmay Sadh, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Manish Goyal, learned Additional Advocate General assisted by Sri Pankaj Saxena, Sri A.K. Sand, learned Government Advocate. Sri Kapil Tyagi, learned counsel for the informant was heard along with Sri Adhitya Srinivasan who appeared through Video Conference.

2. This writ petition has been filed with a prayer that the First Information Report dated 7.10.2024 giving rise to Case Crime No.992 of 2024 against the petitioner-Mohd. Zubair lodged under sections 196, 228, 299, 356(3), 351(2) and 152 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and under section 66 of the Information Technology Act be quashed.

3. The brief facts leading to the lodging of the FIR are that on 3.10.2024, the petitioner had tweeted certain messages at 9.30 pm. Thereafter on 4.10.2024 he had again tweeted at 11 hours and 08 minutes and thereafter on 5.10.2024 he had again done so at 12.38 PM. Thereafter and as a result of the tweets, specifically the one that was made on 3.10.2024, in the night of 4.10.2024 at Dasna Devi Temple, certain persons attacked a temple. The FIR

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