User:Jabir ali khan/sandbox

Zakir Ali Tyagi is an Indian social activist from Muazzarfarnagar, Uttar Pradesh who was arrested by the U.P Police and jailed for 42 days because of his social media posts. He was charged under Indian Penal Code’s Section 420 and Section 66 of the Information Technology Act. Police also later charged him under Section 124, A which deals with sedition. He had shared tweets which were allegedly offensive towards chief minister Yogi Adityanath, river Ganga and the practice of Haj subsidy. And that too, while using a profile picture of a slain UP police officer Akhtar Ali who was martyred in an encounter in 2015. On April 2, 2017, Zakir was picked up from his home in Muzaffarnagar.