The Delhi Police has informed the Delhi High Court that nothing incriminating has been found against Jagdish Kumar, the man who called fact-checker and Alt News journalist Mohammed Zubair a ‘jihadi’ and commented “Once a jihadi is always jihadi”.A report filed by the Delhi Police in High Court said that the police examined Singh to inquire about his intentions and after recording his statement, nothing incriminating came out to proceed further in the matter.Delhi Police said that Singh’s tweet does not cause fear or alarm to the public and that is why no case has been registered against him“Thus, the captioned tweet by the complainant Mr. Jagdish Singh and his examination in this regard has revealed that the captioned tweet on 18.04.2020 does not cause fear or alarm to the public or any section of the public whereby any person may be induced to commit an offence against any state or against public tranquility. That in view of above, no case has been registered in relation to the captioned tweet against the complainant i.e. Mr. Jagdish Singh,” the report said.The Delhi Police’s report was filed after the High Court pulled up the police for failing to act against Singh and instead filing a first information report (FIR) against Zubair.The incident dates back to 2020 when Zubair in his tweet, had called out Singh for being a troll and retweeted his display picture which featured his daughter but after pixelating/ blurring the daughter's image.The tweet read,“Hello Jagdish Singh. Does your cute grand daughter know about your part time job of abusing people on social media? I suggest you to change your profile pic.”Subsequently, Zubair was booked by the Delhi Police which invoked the provisions of Protection of Children from Sexual Offices (POCSO) Act as well as sections of the Information Technology Act and the Indian Penal code for allegedly "threatening and torturing" a minor girl on Twitter.The Delhi Police later filed an affidavit before the High Court saying it has not named Zubair in the chargesheet because it did not find any criminality against him.However, the High Court pulled up the Police for failing to act against Singh who had made “hate speech” against Zubair.Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani said that the Court would not be doing its duty if no action is taken against Singh for making hate speech against Zubair."You went hammer and tongs against him (Zubair). But the case has now ended in a whimper as it should have because there was no evidence against him. But what action have you taken against this man (Singh)," the Court had asked Delhi Police counsel.Advocate Urvi Mohan represented Mohammed Zubair.
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