New Delhi After a day-long interrogation, the Special Cell has arrested Prabir Purkayastha, founder and editor-in-chief of News 

Click web portal and Amit Chakraborty, posted in News Click's HR. Now the Special Cell can produce him in the court on 

Wednesday and remand him for questioning. Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora has confirmed the arrest of both. According to 

HGS Dhaliwal, Special Commissioner of Special Cell, the Special Cell team conducted raids in five cities and detained a total of 

37 senior journalists and others. He was interrogated for a long time at the sale office in Lodhi Colony.
Nine women present at the raided sites were questioned about their residences and digital devices like mobiles and laptops along 

with some documents were seized for investigation. After questioning, each was released late in the evening.
Before the arrest, Prabir Purkayasth's lawyer was called to the cell office. After talking to them, they were also sent back from 

the office and after some time the police informed that Prabir Purkayastha and Amit Chakraborty have been arrested.
If both are UAPA. They will not be able to get bail soon if they are arrested under The 37 people who were released after 

interrogation may also be re-interrogated. Among them, some other people can also be arrested.
Let us tell that more than 100 places were raided in Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram and Mumbai. The raid started at 6 am on 

Tuesday and continued till late evening. All teams of Special Cell were deployed in this operation. More than 500 SAIL 

employees were involved in this raid. NewsClick is accused of taking funds from Chinese companies to run sponsored news in 

favor of China.