NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha
New Delhi: The Delhi Police may file a several thousand-page charge sheet in connection with the UAPA case registered against the news portal NewsClick, which is accused of receiving a huge amount of money to peddle pro-China propaganda through its stories, sources said on Friday.
The Delhi Police Special Cell had last year registered a case under sections 13, 16, 17, 18 and 22 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act along with sections 153A and 120B of the IPC in the matter.
It also arrested NewsClick’s founder Prabir Purkayastha and HR head Amit Chakravarty on October 3, 2023.
The charge sheet is complete and “may be filed on Saturday,” a police source said.
The Delhi Police had in December last year sought a three-month extension to file the charge sheet in the case.
Having granted the extension then, the court again in February, extended police 20 more days to file the charge sheet.
In the wake of the case, police sealed NewsClick’s office in Delhi and questioned over 46 people, including journalists and employees of the portal.
They also seized several documents and digital devices, such laptop and mobile phones of many of them.
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