(MENAFN- Live Mint) "The Delhi High Court on Monday granted bail to NewsClick human resources department head Amit Chakraborty, in a case registered under stringent provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for allegedly receiving foreign funds through Chinese firms to disrupt the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India May 3, the Delhi High Court had reserved its order on the bail plea of Amit Chakravarty READ: NewsClick: Court acknowledges founder received funds for pro-China contentJustice Swarana Kanta Sharma had reserved the order after Chakravarty's counsel submitted that the chargesheet has already been filed in the case and the petitioner, after turning an approver, has been cited as a prosecution witness's lawyer had said that the high court has the discretion under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to grant bail to him counsel for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had said the prosecution has no objection if the relief is granted to him January this year, the trial court had allowed Chakravarty to turn an approver in the case and granted pardon to him had claimed that he is in possession of“material information” about the case, which he is willing to disclose to the Delhi Police founder Prabir Purkayastha and Chakravarty were arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police on October 3 last year. Both are currently in judicial custody.
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first information report (FIR), a large amount of funds to NewsClick came from China to“disrupt the sovereignty of India” and cause disaffection against the country.
The FIR also accused Purkayastha of conspiring with a group -- People's Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS) -- to sabotage the electoral process during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls were conducted at 88 locations in Delhi and seven in other states on October 3 last year on the suspects named in the FIR and those whose names surfaced following data analysis, police had said inputs from PTI
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