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New Delhi: Minutes after AltNews Co-founder Mohammed Zubair secured bail from Supreme Court in all cases registered against him, Twitter users welcomed the journalist back and hashtags #MohammedZubair and #WelcomeBack were soon trending on the micro-blogging site.

User trolled right-wing activists and journalists who had called for Zubair’s arrest and were opposing bail to the fact-checker.

Senior Editor of The Wire, Arfa Khanum tweeted and called Zubair a hero while another reputed journalist Rajdeep Sardesai said the Court’s order is a strong message for cops and their political masters.

Several other journalists, activists, and users also took to their respective handles and welcomed back Zubair.

Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court granted bail to Zubair in all the cases registered over his 2018 tweet. The SC also refused the prosecution’s plea to restrict Zubair from tweeting.

In what came as a surprise to the right-wing fringe elements, the SC also clubbed and transferred UP Police’s FIRs to Delhi and disbanded the UP SIT set up to probe the matter. It also ordered his release before 6 pm on Wednesday subject to Zubair furnishing Rs. 20,000 bail bonds.

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Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Minister for Wakf & Minority Welfare B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan told the Legislative Assembly on Monday that 17,969 acres of Wakf property have been encroached upon in the state, mostly by Muslims themselves.

The minister was responding to a question by Afzalpur Congress MLA M Y Patil during the Question Hour.

"Total Wakf property across the state is 1,12,860 acres, out of which only 20,054 acres is in our hands. As many as 17,969 acres have been encroached, 47,263 acres have gone under the Inam Abolition Act and 23,627 acres have gone under the Land Reforms Act," Khan said.

He said that after the Congress government came to power and he became the department's minister, Wakf Adalats were held across the state aimed at removing encroachments.

Noting that 1,12,860 acres of Wakf land were given not by the government, but by private individuals and organisations for the welfare of the community, the minister said encroachments on Wakf property are mostly by the Muslim community itself, not by temples or other communities.

"Encroachments on Wakf land are not by others, they are done by Muslims themselves. Wakf Adalats were held to remove those encroachments, but the BJP made it an issue," he said, adding that encroachment issues are being resolved.

Leader of Opposition R Ashoka intervened and said the BJP's objections were not about removing encroachments by Muslims on Wakf land, but about farmers' land, land belonging to schools such as the one studied by Bharat Ratna Sir M Visvesvaraya, and in some cases land belonging to temples, among others, being claimed as Wakf land.

The BJP is in fact in favour of an investigation into the encroachment of Wakf properties, he said.

Responding to this, the minister clarified that the government is not laying hands on any temples or educational institutions by claiming them as Wakf property.

"To identify encroachments by private people, mostly Muslims, Wakf Adalats were held," he added.

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