Police search houses of Wire’s founding editors

The Delhi Police on Monday searched the houses of The Wire’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan and deputy editor M K Venu in connection with a now retracted story related to BJP’s IT department head Amit Malviya. A senior police officer said electronic devices belonging to the two senior editors of the news portal will be examined. No arrests have been made yet in the case, the officer said. Police on Saturday filed an FIR under sections 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery with purpose of cheating), 469 (forgery for harming reputation), 471 (using a forged document as genuine), 500 (defamation) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC on a complaint by BJP IT’s cell chief Amit Malviya.