Critics say the incident is an attack on one of India's few remaining independent news outlets and comes months after the BBC's offices in India were searched.
Indian police have raided the offices of a news website that's under investigation for allegedly receiving funds from China, as well as the homes of several of its journalists, in what critics have described as an attack on one of India's few remaining independent news outlets.
The case was filed under a wide-ranging anti-terrorism law that allows charges for "anti-national activities" and has been used against activists, journalists and critics of Mr Modi, some of whom have spent years in jail before going to trial. No one has been arrested in connection with NewsClick so far.
In August, Mr Thakur accused NewsClick of spreading an "anti-India agenda", citing the New York Times, and of working with the opposition Indian National Congress party. Both NewsClick and the Congress party denied the accusations.The Press Club of India said it was "deeply concerned about the multiple raids conducted on the houses of journalists and writers associated with NewsClick".
Mr Modi's administration has also introduced rules that require government approval for investments by companies from China and other countries that neighbour India.
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