The Delhi High Court on Friday quashed lookout circulars issued by the Central Bureau of Investigation against former NDTV promoters Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy, Live Law reported.

A lookout circular is used by the law enforcement authorities to check whether a person leaving the country is wanted by the police.

The circulars had been issued against the Roys on behalf of the CBI in connection with two first information reports filed in June 2017 and August 2019, Bar and Bench reported.

In May, the court had verbally observed that it would be futile to retain the lookout circulars, Live Law reported. The counsel for the Roys had said that the couple had answered the summons issued to them in 2019 and had cooperated in the case.

In October 2024, the investigating agency had closed the corruption and fraud case against Prannoy and Radhika Roy. It said that there was no criminal wrongdoing in a Rs 375-crore loan extended by ICICI Bank to their company RRPR Holdings Private Limited.

The closure report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation had reportedly said that the loan, alleged in 2017 to have violated banking regulations, was in fact a normal business transaction.

A Delhi court took note of the closure report in November 2024 and accepted it in January 2025.