NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha released from Tihar Jail on Supreme Court orders
The Hindu
NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha released from Tihar Jail after Supreme Court declares his arrest invalid under UAPA.
NewsClick founder and editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha was released from the Tihar Jail in New Delhi on May 15 night, hours after the Supreme Court declared his arrest “invalid”.
Mr. Purkayastha had been lodged in the jail since November 2, 2023.
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The Delhi Police’s Special Cell had arrested Mr. Purkayastha on October 3, 2023, under anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for allegedly receiving money to peddle pro-China propaganda through stories.
According to his lawyer Arshdeep Singh Khurana, Mr. Purkayastha came out of jail number 10 of the prison in Rohini at 9 p.m. His family members and friends received him outside the jail complex.
Observing that the right to life and personal liberty was the “most sacrosanct” fundamental right guaranteed under Articles 20, 21 and 22 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court said any person arrested over allegations of commission of offences under the UAPA or other offences has a fundamental and a statutory right to be informed about the grounds of arrest in writing.
A Bench of Justices B.R. Gavai and Sandeep Mehta said a copy of such written grounds of arrest have to be furnished to the arrested person as a “matter of course and without exception at the earliest”.
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