Lucknow: The Muzaffarnagar Police on Monday registered a case against Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair on charges of disclosing the identity of a seven-year-old Muslim boy who was slapped by his classmates on the order of their teacher.
Zubair has been booked under Section 74 of the Juvenile Justice Act on a complaint filed by a person named Vishnudutt. The law makes it punishable to disclose the identity of a child victim or witness of a crime.
On August 24, a video of the Muslim boy being slapped by his classmates went viral on social media. The incident took place in Muzaffarnagar’s Neha Public School, owned by Tripta Tyagi, who was the teacher seen in the video asking the boy’s classmates to hit him.
“I have declared – all these Muslim children, go to anyone’s area,” she can be heard telling a man off camera who agrees. She then asks another boy to hit the Muslim student on his back, saying: “Start hitting him on the waist… His face is turning red, hit him on the waist everyone.”
The FIR registered against Zubair says that the journalist had disclosed the identity of the boy by sharing a video of the incident on social media.
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