India, Feb. 16 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday announced an imposition of penalty notice worth Rs.184 under Foreign Exchange Management Act against NewsClick and its Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha, officials said.

The ED initiated its probe after a Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing registered a case against NewsClick and its founder in 2020 in connection with money allegedly received from overseas.

On the basis of the FIR, the ED also conducted searches on the premises of NewsClick and several other places in connection with money allegedly received from overseas.

The federal agency had raided Purkayastha's premises in September 2021 in connection with a money laundering probe and later attached a flat in New Delh...