
NewsClick has termed the freezing of its bank accounts as an “administrative-legal siege” and said this has “left all our employees shocked” at the year-end festive season.
Issuing a statement on Tuesday, the news outfit said it has been unable to make any bank payments since the evening of December 18. It said that it “appears to be a continuation of the administrative-legal siege of the news portal which began with the Enforcement Directorate raids in February 2021, followed by an IT department survey in September 2021, and the October 3, 2023 crackdown by the Delhi Police Special Cell”.