Human rights organisation People’s Union for Civil Liberties on Sunday expressed shock at the detention of Newsclick Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha and author Githa Hariharan at their home amid the Enforcement Directorate’s days-long search in connection with a money-laundering case. The organisation also criticised the media coverage of the raids.
“People’s Union for Civil Liberties is shocked at the illegal detention of the editor-in-chief of news portal, Newsclick, Prabir Purkayastha and well-known author, Githa Hariharan, at their home in Delhi as the 113-hour search by the Enforcement Directorate continued,” the organisation said in a statement. “Senior citizens aged 73 and 67 years, they were kept in confinement and not allowed access to phones and even to their lawyers in gross violation of their fundamental rights.”
PUCL said the raid on the portal’s employees seemed like action against “a business cartel out to manipulate the market”.
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