Granting the Alt News co-founder interim bail in all six cases registered by the Uttar Pradesh police, the court observed that the power of arrest must be used sparingly.
The journalist, who is in jail and faces no fewer than four sets of charges in separate cases filed over a period of two weeks, had challenged the Allahabad HC's refusal to quash the Sitapur Police's FIR.
Zubair's bail is subject to conditions that he will not leave the jurisdiction of the magistrate's court in Sitapur which sent him to police custody on July 7, and that he will not tweet during this period.