On Wednesday, the Delhi Police made allegations that Prabir Purkayastha, the founder of NewsClick, had worked with a Shanghai-based business to spread the myth that Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh are disputed areas.
The Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China is rumoured to be active member Neville Roy Singham, Prabir Purkayastha, and a few other Chinese employees of Neville Roy Singham-owned StarStream, a Shanghai-based company, have exchanged emails that reveal their intention to portray Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh as not being a part of India, the Delhi Police informed the Patiala House Court of Delhi.
According to Delhi Police, these individuals’ actions reflect their plan to spread a myth that Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh are contentious on a national and international level.
“Their attempts to tinker with the northern borders of India and to show Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh as not parts of India in maps amount to an act intended towards undermining the unity and territorial integrity of India,” said Delhi Police.
According to the accusers, they also planned to stop supplies and services that are necessary for survival as well as to aid in the damage and destruction of property by prolonging farmer demonstrations with such unlawful foreign funding.
To undermine the efforts of the Indian government to curb the COVID-19 outbreak, a false story has been spread. According to Delhi Police, Prabir Purkayastha allegedly planned to sabotage the 2019 general elections by working with an organisation called People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS).
“People’s Dispatch Portal, owned and maintained by M/S PPK Newsclick Studio Pvt Ltd was used for intentionally peddling these false narratives through paid news in lieu of crores of rupees of illegally routed foreign funds as part of a conspiracy,” said the police in Court while seeking Prabir Purkayastha and Human Resources Head of the news portal NewsClick, Amit Chakravarty’s remand.
According to the accusers, they also planned to stop supplies and services that are necessary for survival as well as to aid in the damage and destruction of property by prolonging farmer demonstrations with such unlawful foreign funding.
To undermine the efforts of the Indian government to curb the COVID-19 outbreak, a false story has been spread. According to Delhi Police, Prabir Purkayastha allegedly planned to sabotage the 2019 general elections by working with an organisation called People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS).
According to the remand application filed in Delhi Court, “PPK Newsclick Studio Pvt Ltd” with its registered office in New Delhi is owned by Prabir Purkayastha, Amit Sengupta, Doraiswami Raghunandan, Bappaditya Sinha, Gautam Navlakha, Geeta Hariharan, Amit Chakravarty, and M/S Worldwide Media Holding LLC.
“Such foreign funds have been fraudulently infused by one Neville Roy Singham through a complex web of several entities including M/s Worldwide Media Holdings (incorporated by Jason Pfetcher, a close associate of Neville Roy Singham, People Support foundation (Jodie Evans, wife of Neville Roy Singham being director), Justice and Education Fund, M/s GSPAN LLC (owned by Neville Roy Singham), The Tricontinental Ltd Inc US, Centro Popular De Midas, Brazil.”
It was discovered that The Tricontinental Ltd, USA and GSPAN LLC, USA respectively formed Tricontinental India Pvt Ltd and GSPAN India Pvt Ltd in order to evade the restrictions on receiving foreign donations by NGOs.
Furthermore, it has come to light that Gautam Navlakha, a shareholder in PPK Newsclick Studio Pvt Ltd since the company’s founding in 2018, continued to engage in anti-Indian and illegal activities, such as actively supporting Naxal organisations that were outlawed and maintaining ties with Gulam Nabi Fai, an ISI agent from Pakistan.
Additionally, it was discovered, according to Delhi Police, that Gautam Navlakha has been involved with Prabir Purkayastha ever since they established Sagrik Process Analyst Pvt Ltd in 1991.
The NewsClick founder and editor-in-chief, Prabir Purkayastha, as well as the head of human resources, Amit Chakravarty, were sentenced to seven days of police remand on Wednesday after the court previously granted the Delhi Police’s request for remand.
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