Delhi: Raids On Journalists, Staff & Over 30 Premises Linked To NewsClick After Chinese Funding Charges (WATCH)

Delhi: Raids On Journalists, Staff & Over 30 Premises Linked To NewsClick After Chinese Funding Charges (WATCH)

Newsclick was in the eye of a storm ever since allegations of peddling Chinese propaganda in India surfaced against it in August this year.

ANIUpdated: Tuesday, October 03, 2023, 10:17 AM IST
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Raids at NewsClick premises | ANI

New Delhi: Raids at different premises allgedly linked to NewsClick are underway at over 30 locations, Delhi Police sources said on Tuesday. "Raids underway at different premises linked to NewsClick, no arrests made so far," Police Sources added. Further investigation is underway. 

Abhisar Sharma, one of the journalists at Newsclick, took to X and said that his laptop was taken away by police and that Delhi Police had "landed" at his home.

Delhi HC notice to NewsClick's Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha

Earlier on August 22, the Delhi High Court issued notice to news portal NewsClick's Editor in Chief Prabir Purkayastha on a plea filed by Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EoW), seeking direction to vacate its interim order asking the probe agency not to take any coercive action against the news site.

The high court, on July 7, 2021, passed an order directing that Prabir Purkayastha shall not be arrested, adding, however, that he will have to cooperate with the investigation as and when required by the investigating officer.

The bench of Justice Saurabh Benrajee sought a response from Purkayastha in the matter.

Case was registered under IPC sections

According to the EOW FIR, a case was registered under IPC sections 406, 420 and 120-B and an investigation was launched. During the probe, the sleuths gathered evidence indicating criminal acts.

The FIR states that the accused persons, in conspiracy with their accomplices based abroad, devised a deceitful scheme to obtain and receive funds for undertaking activities as per instructions received from their foreign-based benefactors, by disguising the funds received as Foreign Direct Investment.

After seeking protection from arrest the petitioner Prabir Purkayastha joined the investigation and he merely provided the balance sheets of PPK Newsclick Studio Pvt. Ltd. for the financial year 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020 but failed to provide closures of the balance sheets to check their source of revenue, expenditures, end use of funds FDI, and fund/revenue from foreign entities stated EOW.

ED also moved the Delhi High Court against Newsclick

Earlier, the ED also moved the Delhi High Court against Newsclick and its editor-in-chief through a fresh application stating that it was a case of grave criminal conspiracy for paid news.

The agency, in February 2021, raided the premises of NewsClick and the residences of its editors in connection with a case of alleged money laundering and conducted search and seizure operations. Its case related to alleged foreign funding is based on an FIR registered by Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing.

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