The donations made to the Alt News website will also be looked into, the investigating officers announced in a statement following the arrest of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair by the Delhi Police Special Cell. According to a report in Hindustan Times, an unknown investigator looking into the issue stated that they were looking into website donations because some of them were allegedly made from “beyond the border.” Zubair’s account has recent transactions of 50 lakh, according to a statement from Delhi Police. Pratik Sinha, a co-founder of Alt News, refuted the Delhi Police’s accusations and referred to them as false. He asserted that in order to “debunk” the charges, he acquired Zubair’s account statements.

There will be an investigation into who was making the donations and “whether they’re from beyond the border,” the Delhi Police officer stated. We’ll also check to make sure the donations aren’t being utilised to turn illegal funds into legal ones. The police will look into Zubair’s “social media brigade” in the second phase of the probe. The policeman stated, “It seems like his tweets are coordinated and planned in advance. They have an army of people amplifying them. If these are robots, who is funding them? We are conducting extensive research on the network that amplifies his tweets. Zubair allegedly hasn’t been helping with the inquiry, according to the Delhi Police. He had packed a formatted phone devoid of any apps and had refused to turn over his personal equipment. Zubair’s attorney denied the accusations, saying that he had reported the loss of his phone to the Police. She said, “The police are aware of the problem, and the mobile phone he possesses is a new one.

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