New Delhi: The Delhi Police conducted raids at the houses of the Wire’s founder Siddharth Varadarajan and Editor MK Venu in Delhi on Monday night. The police said that they would be searching the pair’s electronic devices in order to collect evidence in the case currently filed against The Wire.

They have not arrested or detained anybody in this searching. Police seized Laptops and mobile phones from their residences. The Delhi Police had filed an FIR against The Wire and its editors on October 29^th based on a complaint by BJP’s IT department head Amit Malviya, who accused it of cheating and forgery and tarnishing his reputation in connection with a fabricated story.

 

Malviya had on October 28^th said he will pursue criminal and civil proceedings against the portal over stories, since retracted, which insinuated that he enjoyed a special privilege on Meta platforms through which he could get any story taken down if he believed it was against the BJP’s interests.