A court in Gujarat’s Kutch district on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta in relation to a 2017 defamation case filed against him by the Adani Group, PTI reported.
In his order, Judicial Magistrate Pradeep Soni said that Thakurta was charged under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code, which deals with defamation, and directed Nizamuddin police station in Delhi to produce the journalist before him.
Thakurta’s lawyer, however, said that they had not yet been informed about the order. “We haven’t received any intimation,” he told PTI. “This information [on arrest warrant] has come to us from media.”
The Adani Group had filed a defamation suit against Thakurta and news website The Wire in 2017 over an article by the journalist that claimed the Centre had amended Special Economic Zone rules to facilitate duty reimbursements for raw materials to Adani Power Limited, leading to a benefit of Rs 500 crores. However, in July…