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Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh) : A sessions court in Uttar Pradesh's Mohammadi on Saturday rejected the bail plea of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair [https://www.aninews.in/topic/mohammed-zubair] in a fact-check case .The hearing on police custody remand will be held on July 20, said Zubair's advocate Harjit Singh .Earlier on Friday, Delhi's Patiala House Court granted him bail in a case related to an allegedly objectionable tweet .Zubair was summoned by a Lakhimpur Kheri court in a case registered against him in September 2021, after a complaint was filed by a journalist of a news channel for a fact-check tweet .The Court sent him to judicial custody for 14 days on Monday. He was presented before the court through video conferencing from Sitapur Jail .A warrant was issued against him in Lakhimpur Kheri's Mohammadi, in a September 2021 case filed by a news channel employee for a fact-check tweet. The session court expected to hear his bail plea on July 13, which was postponed till Saturday after the plaintiff raised an objection against the application from Zubair's end that was filed in English .Meanwhile, on Friday, a Delhi court granted him bail in a case related to an allegedly objectionable tweet, whose FIR was lodged on June 20 on the grounds of a complaint filed by the Duty Officer of the IFSO unit of the Delhi Police Special Cell, which tackles cyber crimes .Zubair was arrested and sent to one day of police custody after the First Information Report (FIR) was registered against him based on a Twitter posting, which another Twitter handle alleged that it "hurt Hindu sentiments ."Zubair was booked by the Delhi Police under sections 153A (promotion of enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birt ...