Zee Media sues The Wire for defamation

Zee Media has yet again filed a criminal complaint against Foundation for Independent Journalism, the parent company of online news portal The Wire .

The complaint, which names The Wire Founder and Editor Siddharth Varadarajan and four others, was filed before Metropolitan Magistrate Sumeet Anand. The complaint claims that two articles published by the online news portal on January 24 “caused serious harm to the reputation of the complainant by imputing behaviour incompatible with proper conduct and suggestions of involvement in improper activity”.