NewsClick, the news website being investigated for alleged connections to China-linked entities to broadcast Chinese propaganda, has been accused of a conspiracy to “disrupt sovereignty and territorial integrity of India”, according to a copy of the FIR accessed by NDTV this morning.
The FIR names NewsClick, founder Prabir Purkayastha, the website’s human resources head Amit Chakravarty, and a number of journalists and civil society activists and accuses them of trying “to cause disaffection against India” and “threaten the unity, integrity, (and) security” of the country.
