NewsClick gets Supreme Court notice after high court quashes ED’s foreign funds case

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to NewsClick and its founder Prabir Purkayastha on the Enforcement Directorate’s appeal challenging Delhi High Court’s May 29 judgment quashing the investigating agency’s case report on illegal foreign funds allegedly received by the news portal.

Delhi High Court had quashed the ED case on the ground that the earlier predicate offence registered by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police for cheating, criminal breach of trust and criminal conspiracy was not made out. Hence, the subsequent Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) registered by the ED on the basis of the predicate offence registered by the EOW was also invalid, the high court has ruled.