Last Updated: October 20, 2023, 18:48 IST
Additional Sessions Judge Hardeep Kaur handed the order after Delhi police produced them earlier than the court docket and sought their additional custody.(Representative picture/Shutterstock)
According to the FIR, a considerable amount of funds to the information portal got here from China to “disrupt the sovereignty of India” and trigger disaffection in opposition to the nation
A Delhi court docket on Friday prolonged by 5 days the judicial custody of NewsClick on founder Prabir Purkayastha and human assets division head Amit Chakravarty, arrested in a case lodged below anti-terror regulation UAPA over allegations that the information portal obtained cash to unfold pro-China propaganda. Additional Sessions Judge Hardeep Kaur handed the order after Delhi police produced them earlier than the court docket and sought their additional custody.
The Special Cell of Delhi Police had arrested Purkayastha and Chakravarty on October 3. According to the FIR, a considerable amount of funds to the information portal got here from China to “disrupt the sovereignty of India” and trigger disaffection in opposition to the nation.
It additionally alleged Purkayastha conspired with a bunch — People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS) — to sabotage the electoral course of throughout the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Raids have been performed at 88 places in Delhi and 7 in different states on October 3 on the suspects named within the FIR and those who surfaced within the evaluation of information, police mentioned.
Around 300 digital devices have been additionally seized from the places of work of NewsClick on and residences of the journalists who have been examined. Following the raids, 46 people, together with 9 feminine journalists, have been questioned by the Special Cell in Delhi and NCR.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)
