Allahabad High Court on Friday restrained police from arresting Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in an FIR lodged for promoting enmity between different groups on the ground of religion after an associate of Yati Narsinghanand, a notorious priest. The order was passed by a bench of justices Siddhartha Varma and Nalin Kumar Srivastava. But in her complaint, the general secretary of Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati Trust Udita Tyagi said that Zubair posted a video of a programme aired in October 3 which he knows will enrage Muslims for them to attack him. It was further alleged that Mr Zubair posted edited clips of a priest on X, with the doings on Prophet Muhammad by Yati Narsinghanand andposted to provoke the radicals against the radical priest. As for the X post, Mr Zubair labelled the alleged speech of Yati Narsinghanand as ‘derogatory’. The FIR was filed by Ghaziabad police last month under sections 196 (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion), 228 (fabricating false evidence), 299 (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings), 356(3) (defamation) and 351(2) (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The plea has been filed by Zubair in the high court seeking an order to quash the FIR while praying for protection against any coercive action. He said in his plea that his post did not incite violence against Yati Narsinghanand. Instead, he had only informed the police authorities about Yati Narsinghanand’s actions and had asked for action on her as per law and this surely could not incite disharmony or ill-will between two classes of people. Apart from it, he also criticized invoking the defamation provision of the BNS for seeking action against Yati Narsinghanand by sharing own made videos which are already viral.