New Delhi: The Delhi police investigation into NewsClick, an online publishing portal, has extended to Kerala.

According to the Hindu, a team from the Special Cell of the Delhi police visited Anusha Paul, a former NewsClick journalist, at her home in Pathanamthitta.

They asked her about NewsClick’s funding and her reporting assignments during her time with the organisation.

Paul said the officers pointedly asked her whether she knew Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] Delhi State secretary, K. M. Tiwari, the newspaper reported.

She told the daily that the police also took her laptop and mobile phone and asked her to report to their office in New Delhi as soon as possible.

Paul had worked for NewsClick from 2018 to 2022 and was currently a researcher with the National Platform For the Rights of the Disabled.

Criticising the raid on NewsClick, Kerala’s chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan, called it a fascist measure meant to gag the independent press.