The Patiala House Court on October 10 sent NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha, and the website’s human resources (HR) head Amit Chakraborty, to ten days judicial custody in the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) case registered against them by the Delhi Police.
This came after the Delhi police submitted in the court that although the two need not be remanded at this stage of the investigation they should be sent to Judicial custody to prevent them from hampering the investigation in any manner.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Hardeep Kaur passed the order in spite of the counsel for the accused maintaining that the allegations in the FIR do not constitute an offence under the UAPA.
