before it on 13 November. The order also mentioned Shah's contention that "the news portal didn't give enough time to him to send his response, the article didn't include the loss incurred by his company in the year 2015-2016, and created confusion over the turnover to defame him." The Ahmedabad civil court on 23 December vacated the ex parte and interim injunction. The court lifted all restrictions except the use of words "[after] Narendra Modi becoming Prime Minister/[was] elected as Prime Minister." The Wire called the lifting of the injunction a victory, and that the "decision by the civil court is a vindication of The Wires fundamental stand that its article had been a legitimate exercise of the freedom of expression in the public interest." However, in February 2018 the Gujarat High court reinstated the gag order and refused to quash the criminal defamation case filed by Jay Shah. The Wire appealed in the Supreme Court of India against this order. The supreme court asked the Gujarat trial court not to proceed until 12 April 2018 with the criminal defamation complaint. Later, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra listed the matter to be heard on 18 April by a different bench of the Supreme Court. However, the bench had not been specified. The Wire pleaded for the withdrawal of its plea, seeking the defamation proceedings against it to be quashed. The portal said they were ready for further proceedings in the Gujarat trial Court. The Supreme Court bench allowed the withdrawal on 27 August 2019. The court remarked that, "it has become a fashion to serve notice to a person for explanation and even before it can be answered, the articles are published within five to six hours" expressing its anguish and also ordered that the trial be completed "as expeditiously as possible." Amit Malviya In response to the now retracted article in The Wire related to Meta XCheck, Amit Malviya, the BJP's IT Department Head, filed a police complaint against The Wire and its editors. In response to the complaint, Delhi Police searched the residence of the founding editors Siddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu, Sidharth Bhatia, Jahnavi Sen as well as The Wire's offices. The raids were condemned by the International Press Institute. Adityanath government During the COVID-19 pandemic, The Wire came under the Yogi Adityanath government's crackdown on journalists reporting on administrative failures and humanitarian crises, a part of