‘Absurd,’ says NewsClick after Delhi Police allege links with Lashkar-e-Taiba, Shaheen Bagh protests
The police made the allegations in a chargesheet filed under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
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News website NewsClick on Wednesday rejected as “absurd” and “baseless” the Delhi Police’s claims that the publication and its founder-editor Prabir Purkayastha were involved in funding Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists and inciting violence in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests.
The allegations were detailed in the police’s chargesheet filed in a Delhi court under provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, according to The Indian Express. The court listed the case for May 31 after taking cognisance of the chargesheet a day earlier.
The document also alleges that NewsClick was involved in distributing money to protestors during the 2020 and 2021 farmers’ agitation at the national capital’s borders.
The Delhi Police had on October 3 raided several journalists associated with NewsClick and arrested Purkayastha and Amit Chakraborty, NewsClick’s head of human resources. In January, a Delhi court allowed Chakraborty to turn approver – or act as a government witness – in the case.
The chargesheet cites an anonymous witness who told the Delhi Police that “during the CAA [Citizenship Amendment Act] protest, Purkayastha used to send the employees to take part and incite the Muslim community to do violent acts and rioting”, The Indian Express reported.
“He [Purkayastha] also used to give cash to employees to distribute among rioters,” the witness said.
Purkayastha and NewsClick’s parent company, PPK NewsClick Studio Pvt. Ltd., had been...
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