India, July 30 -- The Delhi Police has informed a city court that the forensic probe into alleged foreign funding of fact-checking website AltNews and data recovered from its co-founder Mohammad Zubair was still on, even as the mandatory sanction required under law to take cognisance of the offences against him is still to be obtained.

The Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) Unit of the Delhi Police Special Cell filed a charge sheet before chief judicial magistrate (CJM) Shriya Agrawal of the Patiala House court on June 16, nearly three years after a case was registered against Zubair over his alleged objectionable social media posts. HT has seen a copy of the charge sheet.

The court posted the matter for hearing on Sept...