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Even as the entire country is under a lockdown, the Uttar Pradesh police served a notice to @svaradarajan, the Founding Editor of The Wire, on Friday asking him to appear at the Ayodhya police station at 10 am on Tuesday, April 14.

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@svaradarajan A group of policemen served the notice at his residence in Delhi, some of whom said they had driven the 700 kilometres from Ayodhya in order to do so.

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@svaradarajan The notice under Section 41(A) of the Criminal Procedure Code cites an FIR registered by the Faizabad police claiming that @svaradarajan had made an “objectionable” comment about chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

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@svaradarajan In one of the FIRs, the complainant objects to an unspecified tweet by @svaradarajan while the second complainant, as recorded in the FIR, says:

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@svaradarajan “The Wire editor on his blog (sic), with the aim to spread rumours and hostility among the public, publicised the following message:

“On the day the Tablighi Jamaat event was held, Yogi Adityanath insisted that a large fair planned for Ayodhya...

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@svaradarajan ...on the occasion of Ram Navami from March 25 to April 2 would proceed as usual while Acharya Paramhans said that ‘Lord Ram would protect devotees from the coronavirus’.

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@svaradarajan One day after Modi announced the “curfew like” national lockdown on March 24, Adityanath violated the official guidelines to take part in a religious ceremony in Ayodhya along with dozens of people”.”

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@svaradarajan The editor was not named.

Though the contents of this FIR are statements of fact that were widely reported in the media, the police went ahead and filed a case.

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@svaradarajan The details of this – along with copies of the two FIRs – were promptly circulated on Twitter by the media adviser to UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

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