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Topic: NewsClick

Why Delhi HC granted anticipatory bail to NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha in ED, EOW cases

One is a case of alleged money laundering being probed by ED, and the other is of alleged unlawful foreign funding initiated by Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police.

Delhi HC grants bail to NewsClick Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha in ED, EOW cases

Purkayastha got bail in 2 cases, one registered by ED in connection with alleged money laundering & another by Delhi Police's EOW probing claims of unlawful foreign funding.

NewsClick founder not informed of ‘grounds of arrest’, ‘clandestine’ exercise — what SC order said

Police should have communicated to Purkayastha grounds of his arrest, which was his constitutional right under Article 22 (1), bench of Justices B.R. Gavai & Sandeep Mehta says.

SC orders release of NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha, terms his arrest ‘invalid in eyes of law’

Court says Delhi Police failed to communicate grounds of Purkayastha's arrest to him, his counsel. He was arrested last yr in a UAPA case for allegedly promoting ‘pro-China propaganda’.

Delhi HC orders release of Amit Chakraborty, NewsClick HR head who turned approver in case

The court has taken cognizance of a chargesheet filed by Delhi Police special cell. NewsClick has been accused of receiving money for pro-China propaganda.

‘Heard money is for LeT’ — claims by 8 ‘protected’ witnesses in NewsClick chargesheet

Chargesheet has one of the 'protected' witnesses narrating how Purkayastha & NewsClick editor Pranjal Pandey went to China and got infected with Covid, endangering their lives.

Info warfare, ‘Kashmir cell’, Maoists, Akhlaq killing find mention in Delhi Police’s NewsClick chargesheet

NewsClick questioned timing of media reports in case, slammed chargesheet as 'nothing but set of opinions of investigating officer parading as allegations'.

‘Funded LeT & Maoists, distributed cash among CAA rioters’ — Delhi Police chargesheet against NewsClick

In 8,000 page chargesheet, police have accused NewsClick & founder Prabir Purkayastha of ‘terror financing’, largely based on statements by protected witnesses. Both charged under UAPA.

Delhi police submits sanctions before court to prosecute NewsClick founder Purkayastha under UAPA

It also alleged Purkayastha conspired with a group -- People's Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS) -- to sabotage the electoral process during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

NewsClick ‘took funding to destabilise country,’ Delhi cops allege in 8,500-page chargesheet

Yet to be filed in court, chargesheet accuses Delhi-based news portal NewsClick of trying to set an ‘anti-India’ narrative and propagate ‘pro-China’ sentiments.

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