[Marxistindia] CPI(M) Welcomes Delhi High Court Judgement on NewsClick

[news from the cpi(m)]

June 12, 2026

 

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

CPI(M) Welcomes Delhi High Court Judgement on NewsClick

 

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) welcomes the Delhi High Court
judgement quashing the FIR registered by the Economic Offences Wing of the
Delhi Police and the subsequent Enforcement Directorate case against
Newsclick and its Editor-in-Chief, Prabir Purkayastha. The verdict is a
stern warning against the misuse of government agencies for political
vendetta. 

 

At a time when the majority of the media houses in the country serve
corporate-political interests, voices like NewsClick, that question those in
power and the corporate houses backing them, have come under severe attack.
It was their fearless reporting of people's movements that resulted in the
conconcted charges that have now been quashed. NewsClick became a thorn in
the side of the BJP-led Union government when it relentlessly covered the
year-long farmers' struggle, with news, analysis, and videos on the subject.
This led to an intensified attack on the news portal as well as imposing of
the draconian UAPA on and imprisonment of Purkayastha for a long time.

 

Right from the outset, it was clear that the action against NewsClick and
Purkayastha by agencies under the Union government was nothing but a plot to
target critical journalism and suppress dissent. Therefore, the verdict is a
victory for the freedom of press as well as democratic rights of citizens.

 

In the light of the Delhi High Court verdict, which categorically stated
that the ED case against NewsClick was "a gross abuse of the process of
law", CPI(M) demands the Union government and the agencies under it to quash
all the other cases that have been foisted by them on NewsClick and Prabir
Purkayastha.

 

 

Muralidharan

(For CPI(M) Central Committee Office)

 

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