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Hearing a petition by NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and the outfit’s HR head Amit Chakraborty against their arrest in a UAPA case, the Delhi High Court sought the Delhi police’s response on Friday, according to a LiveLaw report. The court will hear the matter again on Monday.

The Delhi police’s FIR against news portal NewsClick claims that “big Chinese telecom companies like Xiaomi, Vivo” purportedly “incorporated thousands of shell companies in India” – and that one “Gautam Bhatia” is a “key person” in the matter.

“They could have used water cannons or lathi-charged the students. But why did they have to use pellet guns to attack student protesters? Have they used pellet guns on school students protesting in Delhi, Mumbai or other parts of mainland India? Then why Manipur?”

Brut Hindi employees had convened for their usual editorial meeting, geared with story ideas, on Friday, when Brut vice president and editor-in-chief Mehak Kasbekar announced its management’s decision to shut the channel’s Hindi vertical. She said the unit, which was started two years ago, did not turn a profit.

During their ongoing negotiations with the union home ministry, Kuki-Zo militant groups demanded a union territory similar to the administrative setup of Puducherry.

A month after he wrote a news story about real estate agents “illegally acquiring” 12 acres of tribal land in Kerala, a journalist with media house Madhyamam was booked by the police in Palakkad.

After the Maharashtra BJP chief urged party workers to “take journalists out for tea” to make sure they only filed “positive” stories, journalists across the state have demanded that he apologise.

“I am happy, at least something has been done,” said Muskan, one of the transgender persons visiting Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on the inaugural day of its OPD facility for the transgender community. 

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and The Morning Context’s Ayush Tiwari.