‘They asked if I covered Delhi riots, farm protest’: Thakurta questioned for nearly 10 hours

Senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta was questioned for nearly 10 hours as the Delhi Police special cell detained several journalists in connection with a UAPA case against NewsClick. He talked about the line of questioning and also lashed out at certain media outlets. “Different people asked me different kinds of questions. They asked if I covered Delhi riots; I said no. They asked if I covered farm protests, I said yes…I answered all of them.”

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Pegasus Deposition

Link of the recording of the 70-minute deposition on 14 February 2022 by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta to the Supreme Court-appointed committee headed by Justice (retired) R V Raveendran on allegations of misuse of the Israeli Pegasus spyware on Indian citizens: https://pegasus-india-investigation.in/depositions/paranjoy-guha-thakurta-statement/