{"id":452724,"date":"2024-05-15T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/05\/15\/arrest-grounds-not-provided-top-court-orders-release-of-newsclick-founder\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T05:22:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T05:22:00","slug":"arrest-grounds-not-provided-top-court-orders-release-of-newsclick-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/05\/15\/arrest-grounds-not-provided-top-court-orders-release-of-newsclick-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Arrest Grounds Not Provided&#8221;: Top Court Orders Release Of NewsClick Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"'Arrest Grounds Not Provided': Top Court Orders Release Of NewsClick Founder\" alt=\"'Arrest Grounds Not Provided': Top Court Orders Release Of NewsClick Founder\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-10\/kd4gp7fg_newsclick-founder-prabir-purkayastha_625x300_10_October_23.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court has ordered the release of NewsClick Editor Prabir Purkayastha, observing that his arrest by the Delhi Police was void in the anti-terror case.<\/p>\n<p>A bench of Justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta today said the remand copy was not provided, which makes his arrest void.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no hesitation in the mind of the court that the grounds of arrest were not provided&#8230;which vitiates arrest. The appellant is entitled to release from custody after the Pankaj Bansal case. The remand order is invalid,&#8221; said Justice Mehta.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Purkayastha was arrested under the anti-terror law, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, days after a New York Times investigation alleged that NewsClick had received funding from a network pushing Chinese propaganda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/supreme-court-orders-immediate-release-of-newsclick-founder-5666726\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Supreme Court has ordered the release of NewsClick Editor Prabir Purkayastha, observing that his arrest by the Delhi Police was void in the anti-terror case. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta today said the remand copy was not provided, which makes his arrest void. &#8220;There is no hesitation in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":452725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[444956,104037,525274],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}