The Allahabad high court has quashed a UP police FIR against the Wire editor Siddharth Varadarajan and reporter Ismat Ara over a report about the death of a farm law protester during a Republic Day rally, Live Law reported.
The case was first registered at the Civil Lines police station of Rampur district on January 31 last year against Varadarajan for a tweet which shared an article written by Ara, published on January 30, under Sections 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration) and 505(2) (statements conducing to public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code. The report shared claims made by Hadeep Singh Dibdiba, grandfather of Navreet Singh, a protester who died during the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day, that his grandson died of a bullet injury and not from an accident.
