PRAYAGRAJ, Feb. 28 -- The Allahabad High Court on Thursday extended the stay on the arrest of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair until March 3 (Monday) in connection with an FIR lodged against him over alleged 'X' Post (formerly Twitter) on Yati Narsinghanand's 'derogatory' speech.

The bench comprising Justice Siddhartha Varma and Justice YK Srivastava passed the order in a petition filed by Zubair challenging an FIR lodged against him accusing him of promoting enmity among religious groups, among other charges.

The FIR was lodged by an associate of priest Yati Narsinghanand.

In the complaint made by Udita Tyagi, general secretary of the Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati Trust, it was claimed that Zubair posted a video clip of an old progr...