New Delhi: After several days of effort – both online and in Guwahati – The Wire on Wednesday was finally able to obtain a copy of the Assam Police’s FIR bearing No. 3/2025, PS Crime Branch, Guwahati, dated May 9, 2025, in which founding editor of The Wire Siddharth Varadarajan and consulting editor Karan Thapar have been summoned.

Others named in the FIR include Satyapal Mallik (ex-governor of J&K and Meghalaya, who passed away earlier this month), Najam Sethi (journalist and former Caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab in Pakistan), and Ashutosh Bhardwaj (Editor of The Wire Hindi).

In addition, the FIR lists the full or partial headlines of 12 articles published by The Wire in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terrorist attack involving the following authors or interview subjects (not named in FIR): former editor of The Tribune Harish Khare, Observer Research Foundation senior fellow Manoj Joshi, former Intelligence Bureau official Avinash Mohananey, former chief of RAW A.S. Dulat, Colonel (retired) Ajai Shukla, former ADG of the Border Security Force S.K. Sood, senior journalist Anand Sahay, educationist Rohit Kumar, senior defence journalist Rahul Bedi, researcher Nirmanya Chouhan........

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