Ghaizabad tweet case: Rana Ayyub gets transit bail

June 21, 2021 14:47

The Bombay high court on Monday granted 4 weeks transit anticipatory bail to journalist Rana Ayyub in the FIR registered by the Uttar Pradesh police over her tweet on the Ghaziabad incident related to the assault of an elderly Muslim man.

A single bench of Justice PD Naik ordered that protection can be granted to Ayyub for a period of four weeks to enable her to approach the appropriate court to seek appropriate reliefs.

Senior Advocate Mihir Desai, who appeared for Ayyub, told the bench that she was a globally renowned journalist who has won several awards for her work and contended that she had only made the tweet based on news reports.

When conflicting versions emerged about the incident, Desai said, Ayyub deleted the tweet.

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