Court remands NewsClick founder, HR head to nine days of police custody
The Hindu
NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and its human resources (HR) head Anil Chakraborty were on Wednesday sent to nine days of police custody
NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and its human resources (HR) head Anil Chakraborty were on Wednesday sent to nine days of police custody in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) case.
Additional Sessions Judge Hardeep Kaur of Patiala House Courts has remanded Mr. Purkayastha and Mr. Chakraborty to police custody after the Delhi Police submitted in the court that they need to confront the accused with protected witnesses and electronic materials recovered.
The two will now be produced before the Court on November 02. This is the second time the duo has been sent to police custody after being arrested on October 03.
Initially, the Court has given the police remand of Mr. Purkayastha and Mr. Chakraborty for seven days, till October 10. They were later sent to judicial custody which ended on Wednesday.
Appearing for the police on the day when their judicial custody ended, Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) Atul Srivastava submitted in the court that the police have the right to seek further custody of the accused and therefore, they are exercising the same.
Meanwhile, Advocate Arshdeep Singh Khurana, who appeared for Mr. Purkayastha, objected to the police custody and said that the ground to unearth larger conspiracy was also taken by the police on the first day.
“They need to show what is the new thing they need to discover. All that they want to do in police custody can be done in judicial custody as well,” he said.
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