{"id":231344,"date":"2023-12-23T02:22:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T20:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=231344"},"modified":"2023-12-23T02:22:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T20:52:03","slug":"delhi-police-given-60-days-for-newsclick-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/12\/23\/delhi-police-given-60-days-for-newsclick-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Police given 60 days for NewsClick probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 22 Dec:<\/strong> A Delhi court on Friday granted the city police 60 more days to complete its probe in the case lodged under anti-terror law UAPA over allegations that news portal NewsClick received money to spread pro-China propaganda in India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Special Judge Hardeep Kaur also extended the judicial custody of the news portal&#8217;s founder and Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha and Human Resources Department Head Amit Chakravarty till 20 January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court passed the order on a plea moved by the Delhi Police that sought more time to complete the investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Special Cell of Delhi Police had arrested Purkayastha and Chakravarty on 3 October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the FIR, a large amount of funds to the news portal came from China to &#8220;disrupt the sovereignty of India&#8221; and cause disaffection against the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also alleged that Purkayastha conspired with a group &#8211; People&#8217;s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism &#8211; to sabotage the electoral process during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Raids were conducted at 88 locations in Delhi and seven in other states on 3 October on the suspects named in the FIR and those that surfaced in the analysis of data, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 300 electronic gadgets were also seized from the offices of NewsClick and the residences of the journalists who were examined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the raids, 46 individuals, including nine female journalists, were questioned by the Special Cell. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 22 Dec: A Delhi court on Friday granted the city police 60 more days to complete its probe in the case lodged under anti-terror law UAPA over allegations that news portal NewsClick received money to spread pro-China propaganda in India. Special Judge Hardeep Kaur also extended the judicial custody of the news portal&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}