ED to appeal Supreme Court on NewsClick money‑laundering

The Enforcement Directorate will appeal to India's Supreme Court to revive a money laundering case against news portal NewsClick and its editor-in-chief, Prabir Purkayastha, after the Delhi High Court quashed the proceedings. Officials announced the decision on Thursday, June 11, 2026, arguing the High Court's ruling failed to address key legal arguments.

In a judgment delivered on May 29, Justice Neena Bansal Krishna quashed both a First Information Report (FIR) filed by the Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing and the subsequent Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) registered by the Enforcement Directorate. The court found that the continuation of the FIR amounted to a "gross abuse of the process of law." The judge ruled that once the predicate offence was set aside, the money laundering proceedings under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act could not continue.

The case originated from a 2020 FIR alleging that NewsClick's parent company, PPK Newsclick Studio Pvt Ltd, received approximately 9.59 crore rupees in foreign direct investment from U.S.-based Worldwide Media Holdings LLC in April 2018. Investigators alleged the investment involved an overvalued share...