Supreme Court seeks a response from NewsClick and Prabir Purkayastha on the Enforcement Directorate's appeal in a money laundering case

6 November 2026

The Supreme Court has issued notice to the news portal NewsClick and its founder Prabir Purkayastha on a plea by the Enforcement Directorate. The Directorate is challenging an order of the Delhi High Court that quashed a case registered against them under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. The notice means the Court will hear whether the High Court was right to end the proceedings. The Enforcement Directorate is the agency under the Department of Revenue in the Union Ministry of Finance that investigates offences of money laundering and violations of foreign exchange law. Under the 2002 Act, proceeds of crime traced to a scheduled offence may be attached and the accused prosecuted before a Special Court. The matter now joins a line of appeals in which the Supreme Court is examining how far a High Court may halt an investigation under that Act at the threshold.