Police raids targeting reporters working for Indian news portal NewsClick resulted in the seizure of around 250 electronic devices including phones, hard disks, and laptops and even the passports of over 90 journalists whose homes were searched during the October operation.
None of the journalists whose devices were seized by the New Delhi police were given their devices' hash values, the digital equivalent of a fingerprint that changes if a device's contents have been tampered with, as required. Some reporters said that no paperwork documenting the seizures was provided.
The unregulated powers to seize devices has triggered a debate with free speech activists and cyberlaw experts calling for due process and a need to update the laws allowing search and seizure by law enforcement agencies across India.
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