{"id":1013991,"date":"2026-06-12T09:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013991"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:12:31","slug":"delhi-hc-quashes-two-cases-against-newsclick-editor-prabir-purkayastha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/12\/delhi-hc-quashes-two-cases-against-newsclick-editor-prabir-purkayastha\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC quashes two cases against NewsClick editor Prabir Purkayastha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has quashed two cases lodged against NewsClick and its editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha over alleged violation of Foreign Direct Investment norms, calling the probe a \u201cgross abuse of the process of law\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The cases were registered by the Delhi Police Economic Offences Wing and the Enforcement Directorate. The EOW had alleged that NewsClick\u2019s parent company, PPK Newsclick Studio Pvt Ltd, received `9.59 crore as FDI in violation of foreign investment rules during 2018-19. Based on the FIR, the ED also registered a money laundering case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has quashed two cases lodged against NewsClick and its editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha over alleged violation of Foreign Direct Investment norms, calling the probe a \u201cgross abuse of the process of law\u201d. The cases were registered by the Delhi Police Economic Offences Wing and the Enforcement Directorate. The EOW had alleged that NewsClick\u2019s parent company, PPK Newsclick Studio Pvt Ltd, received `9.59 crore as FDI in violation of foreign investment rules during 2018-19. Based on the FIR, the ED also registered a money laundering case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014019,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013991\/revisions\/1014019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}