New Delhi: Anurag Thakur, the Information and Broadcasting Minister of India, stated on Tuesday that the investigative agencies in the country operate independently and in accordance with the law. He made this remark in reference to the recent raids conducted at locations associated with the online portal NewsClick in Delhi.
“I need not justify the raid. If someone has done something wrong, probe agencies work on it… Nowhere is it written that if you have got money through illegal manner or done something objectionable, then probe agencies cannot investigate that,” Thakur said, as per PTI.
Delhi Police’s Special Cell on Tuesday morning conducted raids at 30 premises connected with online portal NewsClick as well as its journalists’ houses, triggering outrage against the action among scribes.
“The probe agencies are independent and they work as per the law,” he said in response to queries at a press conference here.
Quoting officials in the know, the report said that police have recovered the dump data from laptops and mobile phones of some journalists of NewsClick.
Delhi Police sources told PTI that the raids, still ongoing, are based on a case registered on August 17 under UAPA and other sections of Indian Penal Code.
