The Delhi High Court has ruled that the Enforcement Directorate’s actions against independent digital news outlet NewsClick and its founder Prabir Purkayastha – stemming from a foreign direct investment case – constituted an abuse of power targeting free and impartial journalism. The court has quashed the money laundering case against the portal, Bar and Bench reported.
Justice Neena Bansal Krishna delivered the judgment on May 29, quashing both the First Information Report (FIR) filed by the Delhi Police Economic Offences Wing (EOW) and the subsequent money laundering proceedings that the ED had initiated.