The firm misrepresented business to receive Rs 9.59 crore FDI in 2018-19, and violated forex, export reporting norms involving Rs 82.63 crore remittances, the agency said.
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.
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.
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’.
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.
NewsClick questioned timing of media reports in case, slammed chargesheet as 'nothing but set of opinions of investigating officer parading as allegations'.
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.
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.
Delhi Police allege NewsClick received 'illegal funds' from US-based millionaire Neville Roy Singham who is believed to be 'at the centre' of a 'global web of Chinese propaganda'.
Also accused in Bhima Koregaon case, activist Gautam Navlakha will be questioned in connection with ‘illegal funds’ which Delhi police claim were routed to NewsClick, it is learnt.
This is the transcript of Ep 1830 of Cut the Clutter, where Shekhar Gupta explains why strategic petroleum reserves are a national necessity & how India compares with China, US & Japan.
Tracked and wheeled variants, built in collaboration with Tata Advanced Systems and Bharat Forge, carry 30mm turrets, cross water using hydro jets, and are 65% indigenous.
American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.
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