Through PTI
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court docket Tuesday despatched to 10-day judicial custody NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and human assets division head Amit Chakravarty, arrested in a case lodged underneath anti-terror regulation UAPA over allegations that the scoop portal won cash to unfold pro-China propaganda.
The 2 have been produced prior to Further Classes Pass judgement on Hardeep Kaur round 2:50 PM.
The prosecution sought 10 days judicial custody for the duo, which was once firmly adverse through Purkayastha’s suggest, who asserted “prima facie” no case was once made out in opposition to his shopper.
“What terrorist act have I dedicated? How can I as a journalist dedicate such an act? What’s the allegation within the FIR? That we’ve got completed important reporting of (executive’s) COVID coverage and farmers’ protest. Is that terrorism?” the attorney stated.
The suggest stated if there was once even an iota of doubt about their guilt, sending them to judicial custody will likely be a “travesty of justice.”
The suggest for Chakravarty argued he was once now not a journalist nor had he won any fee.
“There’s no such allegation that there’s a map of India, printed through NewsClick, that presentations India with out Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh,” he stated.
Countering the arguments, the Particular Public Prosecutor (SPP) Atul Shrivastava stated the case was once at a level when proof was once nonetheless being accumulated, and the prosecution has sought judicial custody for the accused in all “equity.”
The Particular Mobile of Delhi Police had arrested Purkayastha and Chakravarty on October 3.
Police additionally sealed NewsClick’s administrative center in Delhi.
In line with the FIR, a considerable amount of price range to the scoop portal got here from China to “disrupt the sovereignty of India” and motive disaffection in opposition to the rustic.
It additionally alleged Purkayastha conspired with a bunch — Folks’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS) — to sabotage the electoral procedure all over the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Raids have been carried out at 88 places in Delhi and 7 in different states on October 3 at the suspects named within the FIR and people who surfaced within the research of information, police stated.
Round 300 digital units have been additionally seized from the places of work of NewsClick and the apartments of newshounds who have been tested.
Following the raids, 46 folks, together with 9 feminine newshounds, have been puzzled through the Particular Mobile in Delhi and NCR.
The Delhi Top Courtroom Monday reserved its order on pleas through Purkayastha and Chakravarty difficult their arrest and the following 7-day police remand.
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court docket Tuesday despatched to 10-day judicial custody NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and human assets division head Amit Chakravarty, arrested in a case lodged underneath anti-terror regulation UAPA over allegations that the scoop portal won cash to unfold pro-China propaganda.
The 2 have been produced prior to Further Classes Pass judgement on Hardeep Kaur round 2:50 PM.
The prosecution sought 10 days judicial custody for the duo, which was once firmly adverse through Purkayastha’s suggest, who asserted “prima facie” no case was once made out in opposition to his shopper.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );
“What terrorist act have I dedicated? How can I as a journalist dedicate such an act? What’s the allegation within the FIR? That we’ve got completed important reporting of (executive’s) COVID coverage and farmers’ protest. Is that terrorism?” the attorney stated.
The suggest stated if there was once even an iota of doubt about their guilt, sending them to judicial custody will likely be a “travesty of justice.”
The suggest for Chakravarty argued he was once now not a journalist nor had he won any fee.
“There’s no such allegation that there’s a map of India, printed through NewsClick, that presentations India with out Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh,” he stated.
Countering the arguments, the Particular Public Prosecutor (SPP) Atul Shrivastava stated the case was once at a level when proof was once nonetheless being accumulated, and the prosecution has sought judicial custody for the accused in all “equity.”
The Particular Mobile of Delhi Police had arrested Purkayastha and Chakravarty on October 3.
Police additionally sealed NewsClick’s administrative center in Delhi.
In line with the FIR, a considerable amount of price range to the scoop portal got here from China to “disrupt the sovereignty of India” and motive disaffection in opposition to the rustic.
It additionally alleged Purkayastha conspired with a bunch — Folks’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS) — to sabotage the electoral procedure all over the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Raids have been carried out at 88 places in Delhi and 7 in different states on October 3 at the suspects named within the FIR and people who surfaced within the research of information, police stated.
Round 300 digital units have been additionally seized from the places of work of NewsClick and the apartments of newshounds who have been tested.
Following the raids, 46 folks, together with 9 feminine newshounds, have been puzzled through the Particular Mobile in Delhi and NCR.
The Delhi Top Courtroom Monday reserved its order on pleas through Purkayastha and Chakravarty difficult their arrest and the following 7-day police remand.