NEW DELHI: In a major relief to digital news platform NewsClick and its founding editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha, Delhi high court Wednesday quashed an FIR registered by the eonomic offences wing (EOW) over allegations of illegal foreign funding, holding that the case disclosed no cognisable offence under the IPC.

The criminal proceedings amounted to an arbitrary attack ‘on the free and impartial journalism of the petitioners’, the judge said.

The Delhi High Court quashed an FIR against NewsClick, deeming it an abuse of power and an attack on journalism, with no disclosed offences. | Latest News Delhi