India, July 23 -- The Delhi high court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to NewsClick's founder Prabir Purkayastha in a foreign funding case registered by Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW).

A bench of justice Neena Bansal Krishna also granted anticipatory bail to Prabir in the money laundering case based on the EOW case.

"Bail granted," justice Neena Bansal Krishna said while pronouncing the verdict.

The court also granted anticipatory bail to the portal's director Pranjal Pandey in the EOW case.

A detailed copy of the verdict is awaited.

EOW in August 2020, registered a first information report (FIR) against the news portal for allegedly violating FDI norms under sections 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust),...