Adani Group to withdraw defamation cases against 'The Wire'

In a surprise move, The Adani Group has decided to withdraw all defamation cases filed against The Wire, a news portal, and its editors, in an Ahmedabad, reports said.

A report on Scroll.in said the cases were filed with regard to articles against Adani Group companies.

Adani Power Maharashtra Ltd had filed two suits against the news portal, while group firm Adani Petronet Port Dahej Ltd had moved a defamation case against it.

Besides that, its founder-editors Siddharth Varadarajan and MK Venu, as well as Siddharth Bhatia, Monobina Gupta, Pamela Philipose and Noor Mohammed were also named in the law suits.

Varadarajan told IANS, “We understand that the Adani Group has moved to withdraw all the defamation cases, civil and criminal, instituted against The Wire over the past two years for various articles we have published on the Group’s businesses. We will issue a statement once this process attains finality.”

However, Siddharth Varadarajan said they would confirm the news when the process reached a final stage, an IANS report said.

(With Agency inputs)