American businessman Neville Roy Singham, two former NewsClick journalists summoned by Delhi Police
The police has alleged that the journalists, Anand Mangnale and Pavan Kulkarni, channelled funds to instigate the 2020 Delhi riots and anti-CAA protests.
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The Delhi Police Special Cell has issued summons to five persons in connection with its anti-terrorism case against NewsClick, including United States-based businessman Neville Roy Singham and two journalists who formerly wrote for the news website, Anand Mangnale and Pavan Kulkarni, reported The Indian Express.
Others who have been summoned are Singham’s business partner Jason Pfetcher and Vijay Prashad, the executive director of a think tank named Tricontinental.
This came 10 days after NewsClick founder and editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha was released from Delhi’s Tihar jail, hours after the Supreme Court declared that his arrest was “invalid”.
Purkayastha had been arrested on October 3 last year along with NewsClick’s head of human resources Amit Chakraborty, after raids by the Delhi Police on over 40 NewsClick staffers and contributors. He has been booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
In January this year, Chakraborty became a government witness and was pardoned in the case. On May 6, he was released from judicial custody by the Delhi High Court. He has claimed in a statement to the police that Purkayastha “gave money to Anand Mangnale with the direction to give it further to [jailed student activist] Sharjeel Imam for inciting the Delhi Riots of 2020”.
“Some amounts from the funds was also given to Students’ Federation of India activist Pavan Kulkarni to...
