on sensitive stories, circumventing due journalistic norms.' The Guild also called the lapses by The Wire 'condemnable' in a subsequent statement. Litigation Reliance Infrastructure In response to one of their video-shows covering the Rafale deal controversy, Reliance Infrastructure had lodged a defamation case in Ahmedabad civil court for a cost of . It was part of a slew of defamation cases, filed against multiple media-organisations and were perceived by some to fall under the category of strategic lawsuits against public participation. Rajeev Chandrasekhar Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP in the Rajya Sabha and venture capitalist, filed a defamation suit in a Bangalore civil court after two articles – Arnab's Republic, Modi's Ideology by Sandeep Bushan, and In Whose Interests Do Our Soldiers March? by Sachin Rao – were published, suggesting that Chandrasekhar's major investments in the Indian media and defence industries represented conflicts of interest with some of his roles as a legislator. On 2 March 2017 the court passed an ex-parte injunction, ordering The Wire to block access to the two articles. The Wire complied but decided to challenge the court order. In February 2019, the court lifted the injunction and ruled in favour of The Wire, leading to reinstatement of the articles. Jay Shah In 2017, Indian home minister Amit Shah's son Jay Shah filed a criminal defamation case against the editors of The Wire for publishing an article titled The Golden Touch of Jay Amit Shah, an investigative story by Rohini Singh. A BJP-led coalition had formed the government at the centre following their win in the 2014 Indian general election, and Narendra Modi had become the Prime Minister. The article alluded to possible irregularities in Jay Shah's business dealings, claiming that the turnover of a company owned by him increased 16,000 times over in the year following the election. Shah filed the case in Court 13 of the Ahmedabad Metropolitan Magistrate against four writers of The Wire. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate S K Gadhvi ordered a court inquiry into the matter under Section 202 of the CrPC to inquire into the case to decide whether or not there is sufficient ground for a case to be filed. Observing that "prima facie it seems there is a case" against The Wire for its defamatory article against Shah, the court issued summonses to the reporter of the article and editors of the website to appear